This is an analysis of the poem The Sorcerer: Act Ii that begins with:
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly Baronet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b c X d e f g g d X b hij dc d kgkgdbdb l l jaXaXjmac ccc cclcg dn cdcdoooodfdfopopoioooqoajoohoiojo f ob f bgbgcaccao cacaca oaoababbao ba ba ba kX f jqi jqX q a jqiijqliflXdflifa ibiiidoqfkrmfjgboojesedojfq f ssilliggMMS ccjiijjjMMS a boboifcbjcbcbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,8,1,1,9,3,5,2,33,1,2,1,10,6,10,2,2,2,2,1,3,3,1,1,17,27,1,11,11,1,27,1,28,1,1,8,4,4,4,4,1,2,1,1,8,1,4,1,1,6,1,8,8,1,14,1,1,6,4,1,1,5,8,5,1,21,2,1,13,1,6,1,1,1,8,8,1,4,11,1,1,4,1,6,25,1,11,1,2,1,5,1,4,1,2,1,1,4,1,1,4,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 1101101100100 01000100101 1010100100 110010110011100100 10100010010100 010101000010 101001100 10010 100100 110101001011111 111011011011 10100011011011110 1001010011011101 011 10101111101010101101 100110 11010011101 1111 1101010 0101 1101010 11001 110111 11011 110101 01011110011 0111101101 10110110101 01010100 010011 01000100 1101001 11011101 11110101 11010100 11110111010 01011110001010 11110001010 11010100110 10111110111 01110101 11011101 1101001010 10 1010101010111110100 1111111111 111011101010 0101110101 111010111010 1111010011 11011111 101111 110111011 110 101001101 11111 1101 11111 1101111 111011 111 11101011 1111011 10110111111 111 1011001111 1111 1011011101 0111 1100100110 1 1011011111 1111 10110111010 111 10110111101 011 11001001101 111111 101 1101101001101001 101110 10010 11110111 1101010 11111111 11110010 10011101 1101110 11110111 01110101 1111110 1 010011010111 1111110 1011010111 1111110 10011010111 1111010 111111111 0001010 11110111 1101110 11010101 1101010 11011101 10011001 1111010 1 010011011101 1111110 1011011101 1111110 10011111101 1011010 100101101011011 1000 011010 0101111 0111 1111010 010111 0101 1111110 010 0101010100 111111011111 011111111111 111101011111101 0111010010 010111011101 01010101 111101110111 110010010 110011011100 110101011101 1101110101101 01010010 110111011101 010101010101 010100101001010 010010010 10101010110100 011101110111 100011011100100 101110110110101 11010101 01011110110101 0100100101101010 01001010100100001 100010101001001000 101010011011101 010010100110010 1010 01100101011 0101110100111100 10011110101111 001011110110 01101011110010101 1111100111010111 11 0101101111001011 10111010101 0101000010101111 101111110101 01011101001 011101101111110 111100111 0100101111100100 010 10010 110101101 01001101 0101001 01110111 11110101 110111 1101010 1101010 011111 101101 0011 100101101 01111101 111101 01010101 111101111 111101 110101 110101 011111 101101 0011 101010 101100010000101000 110111101000010010 01001001101010 011101011101 10111010111110010 01001100101110100 101101010101010 010111010111111 01101010010111011 01001010011001110010 110010110011011010 010101111010010 0110101111111 010 01011011010011101 110100101010110010 10111011111010 1010 1011101101010101 010101000101011011 01011111111111011 1101011010111011 1011010111001001 101100010110101 111010110010011 10100111101 0111110 10110101010101 011010011010 1110101110101111 011101011101011 101000100100101000 1001100010 0101010011110001 1010110101110010111 01101100101000111 101010010010100100 1111111 101100010111101 010110111001111011 10010111101010010 11111101111000100 111010001101101 010101111001010 10100110100101 11111111110110 11010010011110101 11001011011100 10111010010101 0110010011011101 111000101101111 1011101 101110011101100 10001000010101001 010001010001111101 1100010111 10 0100111011011010 01010110010 1010001 11100010 0011101 10111111 1010101 10101111 1010100 0111101010 1010111 10101010 0010100 1111101010 10101001 10111010 1110101 10101101110 1011001 10111010 10111001 110101110 1110110 10101110 1110101 01010111100 101101101010100101010 110010000110001 10101 1000101 1111110011 111101 00110111001 111111 1101011101 011101 01010000110 110101 101001010101010 10101111101 11111111 11110111 11 1101101101011 1000 10110010111011 111001100011 01010001010 101111111010100 1101011101 11101101100 01101001101 11111110111 101111101 11111111001 101111111 11111011100 101111111 11111011111 101111111 1011111000101 1111101 1011111111001 1110101 1011111010101 1111011 1011111110011 1111111 1000101 111110010101 1111111101 10110101 101 00101 0111 1011101 1111 10101 1010101 10101110111 10110011111 10101110111 10110010101 010 101001 11001011100101 01011111100111 110111111110101 110001100100011 011011001011001001 11011110100111 10100101001 001000101 01110101001 01010111 1010100011001001101 10011000 0101111111 1100010101 1111011101 0011001101 1101 010101 1101 110111 01001 0101101 1101 011100 1101 101010111101010010001 01010101100100001 11101101010111 01010010010100010 1 11010 1110111 1010111 101011010 1010010010 101111010 011110100 10101010 11111010 01111110 11101110 00101110 111 11110111 1010111 10111010 10101110 100100010 0010111 111 11110111 1010111 10100110101011100 100001010100 0100111010 11011101 11111111 010101 01111101 11010111 010100 011101 1011101 011111 1011111 111111101 01010101 010101 10010 0100100111011100 0111100 01001011 0101111110111 0100 01010111111 10101000010 010011 010111010 0101110111 110101 11110101 110101 111101001 11110101 11010111 110101 1011111010 110101 00011101 110101 111010101 101110101 01001111 110101 010 111010101 1010110101 010010111 1010101 01010001110111 0111011 11001111 011011110 0101011111 10111110 0101010111 011011110 0101011101 10111110 01010111001 101010001101001101 10 110010110010 11001011001 111110011010 11101001011 1000010 0111010 1101010 1101010 0101010 0011110111 1111110101 1011010101011 1011110110101 111010011101111 01000100101001101000 1110011001110111 010111101100001010 00100100 01011001110011 1001011110010100110 1110001 1111111101111 011001 01010110 1111111101010001 110001111110100 101011101111111 1101101101 010111110 0111010011010101 111110010111100 0101110110010110 0010 1110110100101 1101011101001001 1 010 11111 11 1100 01 1111 110101010 10111 10001110 111 11001011101 0101000111 111 0101110101 1101010111 1 11101101011110 11011101011010100 011101011001010101 011101010011011 0101010101010101 1 10011011 101001 10001010 100101 101 111011010111 1111000101 010 110110100010101 1001011 1101101 1101011 1101101 10100101100 10101010011010 1101011 1101001 1101011 1101101 1011011100 1001 1001001011101011 10 10
- Amount of stanzas: 119
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 533
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mr, wells, you, for, i, very, and, oh, joy, bless, of, their, beloved, alexis, no, me, to, it, been, that, my, him, his, lady, engaged, vault, family, your, so, pity, thee, be, thou, leaves, goes, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, alexis, lady, will, so, what, oh, i, wells, aline, now are repeated.
The author used the same words alexis, lady, all 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 now, you, no, wells, me, engaged, so, thee, her, to are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words dearly, love, years, wells, woe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases alexis, no, wells, so, thou connect the lines.
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- summary of The Sorcerer: Act Ii;
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