This is an analysis of the poem Hudibras - The Lady's Answer To The Knight that begins with:
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,
Is no strange news, nor ever was;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdddXbbeebbeebbeeffeecceebbccaaXaggaaXhXeiibbjjffkk eegjbbbbllmnaaggaaccbXbbaakkjjggff oXXXddppeeiieeXfffabqppp bbiiXbmnbb iiffiiaaiiffbbffbbkkqqXhbbaaddppccccpqaaeeggppXeXXaaeeffddddeekkddXqaXccXacc ddeedhddkXXbbbeeaaeeddqqoXbbbbffggaaffdddXrrffeeaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,34,24,10,76,90,32,4,42,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01111101 11011111 00011001 11111101 01011101 111011010 1010001010 110101001 11010111 11010101 01110001 11010011 10011100 111010101 010100101 111100010 100001010 11011101 11011101 110111101 01110101 101011100 110111000 111110111 01101101 11110001 11110111 01011101 01110111 11010101 11110111 01110011 010101101 11110110 0101110 11010111 11110101 110101101 11100111 010110100 010100110 11010110 11001111 11110101 11010001 10101101 01011100 110011010 111111010 00110101 01000101 11011101 11010001 11110101 11101111 11110101 111101110 11111101 11111111 111111001 11001101 11110001 10110011 111101111 11110100 11110111 01110001 11110111 01001111 11110011 110110011 11110101 11110111 1110111 110101100 11110111 11010011 110011100 111110011 11001101 11110011 1010100010 011101010 11011101 11010101 11000111 01010111 111011111 100011110 0111101000 110111000 11110101 111011101 11111111 011111001 11111111 11110001 00110101 11001101 10110101 011101111 1111010 110110001 11110101 10101111 111101010 010101110 10011100 01110101 11010101 11011101 11100101 01011101 11010101 110111001 11111110 11110111 11111111 110011100 1101110 01010101 00011101 01001101 1101101011 101010001 11011001 01011111 11010001 110111011 110101001 01110101 1101101 11011101 11110101 01101101 11011101 01010101 11110111 11111011 1111010100 111101010 010101010 111101110 110111100 110111110 111111101 01010101 10011101 11011111 11010011 11110001 11110101 11111101 10110101 11110111 11011001 11011111 11011111 11001100 11010101 01010101 11110101 011100001 11110101 11110011 11010101 01011101 11010110 111010111 11100100 1101100010 10111111 11111001 11001001 101110001 11100001 110110111 11011101 11010111 11010101 11110011 11110111 00011111 11010011 01010111 110100010 0111010110 01110101 11011100 111100110 011101110 01010101 11111101 10110100 11111111 11110001 11011101 10110101 11110101 10110001 11110101 1111111110 010101110 11011101 11011101 11101101 11000101 111011100 010111100 011001010 110101110 10010011 11110101 11010011 11010101 11010101 11011101 111001110 110010010 111101010 000101110 11110111 01010010 11110101 01010101 10110101 01100001 11110111 1101010 110101011 01111011 01101111 10111100 11110101 11110101 01111101 11010101 11010111 11011010 11110101 11110111 01011101 11111111 11000101 01011101 11110001 11010011 11010011 110111101 011101010 111101010 10111101 01010101 11010111 11010100 111100101 11010111 11111101 101111100 110010111 01111011 10111101 11001101 11011111 01011101 111100101 11011101 10010101 01110111 11110111 11010100 11000111 10110101 11011101 01011101 110101101 11011101 10010101 010110101 101110101 01011111 10010111 11011111 111010101 11011101 110101110 011101100 11110111 11010101 01110111 011110101 11011101 11110100 11010101 01010101 11000111 11110111 11110111 01001101 110100100 1110011000 11011011 01110101 11011111 11111111 110101010 111111110 11010111 11110111 11010111 10110101 1111100100 01010101 01110001 01011101 11010100 11010101 11111101 11101111 111100101 11110111 11110111 01110111 11110101 10111011 01010011 01011101 11110101 11101111 1111101010 111011010 11010001 01010111 11010111 11010101 111011101 01100011 111111101 11011100 11110011 11010001 111111101 111110101 11010101 11011001 01110011 111111111 010001010 1111010110 01011111 111100101 11010111 11010111 011101110 111111010 11110001 11110001 1101010100 011101100 01010001 11110111 01010001 11011111 010100110 111101010 11110101 11010111 11011010 010100110 01101100 11010101 01111101 001100101 11010111 01011101 11000011 110101101 11110111 1101101 1111101010 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1224
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 382
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, your, those, their, as, had, we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, 'em are repeated).
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