This is an analysis of the poem John Skelton that begins with:
What could be dafter
Than John Skelton’s laughter? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccXacccdddeeXXccffXffXXggghhiiiiibbbaXXabbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 111010 111100 1010100 1101110 1111010 1111011 110111 111000 011100 111101 101101 010111 1110111 111111 111111 010101 10101 11010000 101101000 11101 101101 10110 10110 10110 1010010 10110 10101010 01010010 1111010 110110 1111110 11110 001010 11011 0111 0111 01111 11111 11111 11101 11111 1100100 100100 100100 1010 10101 101001 110101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1272
- Average number of words per stanza: 211
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of John Skelton;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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