This is an analysis of A Mock Charon. Dialogue by Richard Lovelace.

CHA. W.
W. Charon! thou slave! thou fooll! thou cavaleer!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXabbccdd Xcc eeXX XXaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,9,3,4,5,
  • Metre: 1100 1001011111100 10101110111 10011111111001101 1010001110100 1111100100 1001011011101 1001001001 11111011111 1100110001 10 1101011111 1011111001 11111101001110 11111101011101 110010111111 10101011100 1010010 100101010 010111110100 1101011101 110101110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

w, thou, to

Anadiplosis

w