This is an analysis of the poem To The Royal Society (Excerpts) that begins with:
Philosophy the great and only heir
Of all that human knowledge which has bin... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccddddXdbbcce ddfgfgccebcbbebeddhhhh ddddddiiiififddiicejjcceccii dkdkkccbbbllllceggiicdcdddiiddkkccaXggdd ddcckiikikkccbbiiiimm Xbbceddcecdiccibbidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,22,28,40,21,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100011101 0111010111 1000110101 11001101 0100111101 1100010100 00110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111001111 01001010111 01011111 1011011101 11010010101 1100110101 11010111 101100100111 111111010100 1011011101 10110010101 00010100111 01010111001 010100101111 00010100010110 010100101 0101110111 01010100 11010101 0100111001 0101110001 1101010010111 11000010100 01001011001 0011011000100 11010101 1101011 1011010101 10111101 11000111 110101010101 0100100101 1111011101 1111010101 0101011 0011001101 111011 1101010001 10111001 010101010101 11110111 01011010101 10010101 11011101 11111101 10011001 0100110101 1011010101 01010111 1011110100 110110 010101110111 11101110 10101001 11010100 1111001101 010101011111 11110111 110001 0111110001 1111000101 0101110101 1101010111 1111011101 1111010101 1101000101 1111001101 0100010001 01010101 1001101111 1101010101 11010111 1110010101 10101010011 0011010100 11010111 01001101 0110101 110001110001 0111110001 0111010101 11111010001 01010101 1011011111 01010011 01010101 001101 100101000101 100111010 1101001101 1001011101 1111010100 0100110101 011011101 10010111010 00100101111 0101011100 1111011101 1110010101 01110010101 1101010101 1011010101 0100110101 1111010001 1101110101 1000101001 0101110101 10110101 10011111 0111010101 1011111111 110010011 11110101 10011101 1110111 10010101 01010101 0111111101 1111110101 11010100101 010101101101 11011101 1111011110 1101100100 11010101 1010000101 11011101 1101000100 10110101 1100010011 0101101111 10110101 11011001 0111010101 1011110101 11010101 100101101101 11101010101 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1037
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 149
- 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; and, of, his, he, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words instead, the are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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