This is an analysis of the poem Try Before You Trust that begins with:
To counsel my estate, abandoned to the spoil
Of forged friends, whose grossest fraud is set with finest foil; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc ffaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010101010001 0111101010101 01011101111101 11111000011101 11011111111 11011111100101 01011110111 11011101010001 01010111110101 10111111110101 100110111111 11011111010101 010101110101 11111111010101 011101010101 01110101010001 111111111111 11011111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, friend, doth are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word foe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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