This is an analysis of the poem Addressed To A Young Man Of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself To An Indolent And Causeless Melancholy that begins with:
Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe,
O Youth to partial Fortune vainly dear!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXdedecXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 1101010101 0101110101 1111010101 1100010101 1101110111 100111011110 1111011101 110110010001 0101111111 1111010101 1101110111 1101111111 1100010101 1100111101 01010100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 725
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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