This is an analysis of the poem Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances that begins with:
OF the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all--that we may be deluded,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaaaceXfXgagXfXfbeXfXdXbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00100100100 0001001011110010 11001011111010101 11001000101001001010 10011010100111 1011010 010111101001101 111011101010101 1011001 11011100110001111 1 11011101111011100 1010011111101011 1101011011111 011110110111 101001001101 01110101110001011 101111 11111100111011101 101 1010101000111110 110111011 111100111001011101 0101010 11010010001001100100 0101 11111010011101 10101110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1593
- Average number of words per stanza: 258
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, of, may, be, and, they, as, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, that are repeated.
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