This is an analysis of the poem The Epilogue that begins with:
The stubborne author of the trifle crime,
That just now cheated you of two hours' time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeffXX ggaaXXeedd bbffcc eecXXggffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,10,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101000101 1111010111 01000110101 1001001111 11111100001 11010101011 1101010101 0111010111 0101101101 1111011100 01111000101 0101010101 0101011101 111101010 1101010011 1001110101 0111010101 0101110101 10110100110 111110111 1010101011 10111010111 1111000111 01101010101 1111110101 1011110011 01111001101 01001111001 0111000101 1111111101 1110111011 11110101001 11110010111 1101110100 1101010111 1101011010 01011101101 101011010 1011110101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Epilogue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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