This is an analysis of the poem The Pastime Of Pleasure that begins with:
The good Dame Mercy with Dame Charyte
My body buryed full ryght humbly... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaX XXXXXbX XXXXXXX XXXXXcc dXXXdXX XaXbXdd XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001100110 110101110 0011001100 11110101000 101001111000 11011000100 10010101000 10111000101 111111101 1011111101 11111100100 1100001111 11110110101 0011010101 1010111111 111110100 10110101110 0111001110 100101010 101110101 110111101 111010101 1101010100 100011010 11010101000 111111010 110101010 110101010 101011110111 11111000101 010111100 011110111 1001110011 110101011 1101100100 101111110 10010001010 1010010110 0111011111 1111111100 1111110011 1111111011 10011100010 011110100 001111110 1011010100 01010011100 11011111000 11110110000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; erthe, thou, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Pastime Of Pleasure;
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- history of its creation;
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