This is an analysis of the poem A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment that begins with:
Preferment, like a Game at bowles,
To feede our hope with diverse play... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aXaX cdXd dcdc eXeX fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010111 01110011 1010101101 01011101 11011110 110111010 11111101 11111101 1111101 11111111 1110011 11010101 11110101 01110101 11010101 11000101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11011101 01011111 11010101 11010111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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