This is an analysis of the poem Democritus And His Neighbors that begins with:

IN Vulgar Minds what Errors do arise!
How diff'ring are the Notions, they possess, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccbbbbdeedeafaaaffXeeggccahahddaaeeeibbieeffccffaaabbaddeeaaeeeeaaddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 1101010101 01110111 110101010111 1000111101 11010101 010001 11010001 0101010101 111101 1111010101 10010011 01010101 0101010101 110001 01010101 010011001 01010101010 0110101010 10011101 0111010101 010101110101 11010100 11011111 0101110101 1101010111 01110101 0100010001 01000101 110111 1101 1100010111 1111110111 01111011 0101010001 11111111 11010001 0100111101 11001010001 1010011111 1101110111 1111010101 0101010101 110101 0111101011 0111111111 1000110101 0111010101 11010101001 1101001101 0101011011 0111010100 1111010101 1111110111 1101111101 11000101 10111101 0101110101 11110001 1101001101 1001010001 1101111111 11100011101 0111110101 0101010101 1101101101 1111010001 1101110101 1111010101 100101110101 1111010101 1001110101 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2996
  • Average number of words per stanza: 524
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, may, to, and are repeated.

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