This is an analysis of the poem Reason, The Use Of It In Divine Matters that begins with:
Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may
Be led by others a right way;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeaaaabb eebbccfX Xbggbbdd ddaXffcc aahhbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011 01110011 1111100111 101011111 11101010111 01110111 1111010111 1110101 1011010101 111001 1101011101 010101101 1101010101 11010111 1111111001 11010101 0111011101 11111101 01110110101 1101 1101010011 11100101 11010110111 10101100 0101110111 10101101 1011011111 0101001 1101010111 0010001 0101110001 101101 0101101111 01010101 1100011001 01111100 1101011101 11110011 1111011101 01010101 11010111001 01111110 10101111101 11111111 1011010101 111001101 1100100011 100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; they, and, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word reason is repeated.
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