This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To 'The Sister' that begins with:
WHAT! five long acts -- and all to make us wiser!
Our authoress sure has wanted an adviser.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffXgghhiXjjjjiiiijjbbX hhkkhhkklljjff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111101110 110011101010 1101011111 0101010101 11110011001 1101011101 11101101010 11111101010 1111110101 1011010110 111101101111 010101010111 11011100 1010101010 11111101110 10010111010 100010101110 1101010111 0101010010 1011010111 1001010101 111101010010 11010111010 0101011101 11011111001 1101111101 0011011111 11110111111 110110100010 1111110101 1011111101 100 1101011111 110100101 1101010001 01010110001 1111011101 11110110001 11001110111 11010010101 0001010101 1111110101 1101110111 0101110001 1101110101 1110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1044
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, false, and, in, to, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'em is repeated).
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