This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xii. His Recantation that begins with:
No more the Muse obtrudes her thin disguise,
No more with awkward fallacy complains... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc cdcd acac eaeaXacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010001 11001001101 1100010101 1011001101 1111010101 11111100101 11110011101 0101010001 01010000111 0101010101 1101110101 10111101001 11110101001 1101010101 11110011101 11001010101 1101011101 1100111101 11011010101 11110111010 11110100111 11010111010 11110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the are repeated.
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