This is an analysis of the poem An Essay On Man: Epistle Ii that begins with:
I.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccddccXeffddggdd hhbbeeddbbgg iijj ddddccbb ddkkbbkkll Xbbgggg ggddccdd hhhhaakkmmddhh ccccllennXdd Xggddeell ccccggggdd ccaaddbbddoo hhddppllcc qqqqllggddcc kkXnaahhddddmmcc ddXXhhcchhkXdd ggccdd eecceeardXssll ddggXbss Xdd kkddkk ggccbb abbkkddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,12,4,8,10,7,8,14,12,9,10,12,10,12,16,14,6,14,8,3,6,6,15,19,12,10,4,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1110011101 0101001101 1101000101 0101011101 0111010101 011101011 1101010111 0101010111 0101110001 1101110101 0101000101 1011110111 1001110101 1101011001 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110001 1101011101 1101111101 0101001101 0111110101 11010011001 0010101111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1100101001 01001010111 0101011101 01011001101 1101011111 1111010101 0111110001 11010111101 0101010101 01110101001 0111110101 1101110110 1101110001 1101010011 1111010001 0110110011 1101001100 1101010101 11001010101 01011111001 0111010101 1111000101 1101110101 1 1100010101 1101110001 1000110111 1101011101 1011010101 0110010101 11001010101 1001010101 1111110101 1110010011 1101100101 0101010111 11001110101 0101010101 11010100010 1001011001 0111000101 1101100101 1111010101 1011010101 11010001011 1001010100 1011000101 1111001111 0100010001 1011010101 01010101001 1101011101 1101011101 11000011011 1111011101 0101010001 1111110101 1111110101 1111001101 11010101010 11010101010 0101011101 1011110101 1101011100 1 1011010111 110110101 11110001101 1101111101 1011001101 1101010101 1101010101 0111111101 0101001101 1101111001 1001010001 1101010111 0101010101 1011010101 11110100011 1001110001 1101001111 1101110101 1011001101 1111000111 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 0110010011 11111100101 1111010001 1101101101 1101010001 0111110101 1101110011 1011001111 1101110101 0101110101 0101010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010001 1111010001 1101010101 1101010001 0101010001 0101110111 1001110001 1111000101 0101010101 1101011101 1100010101 1101011101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010001 1101001101 1001110111 11111100110 1100110101 0011110101 1011111111 1111111111 1101110101 0101010101 1001110001 0111110101 1011010101 1101110101 1111010001 0101011101 1101110001 1001111101 1001011101 1101011111 01001010101 1101100101 11001110101 0101000101 1111011101 1111110101 1111011101 0101010100 0101000101 1101110111 10101100001 1101011100 1101000101 1101000101 0110110101 10110010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110001 0101000111 1101110101 1101010100 1111010101 0101111100 10011010101 0101000111 1101111111 1101111111 1101110111 0101001111 100110001 1101010010 01001010100 0101010001 0101010111 11010010101 1 0111001101 1101010101 0101010101 01110101001 1111010101 1011110111 1111010011 1101010101 1101000101 1111010111 0111110111 0101011111 1111110011 1001010111 1 1001001101 1001011001 1111010001 1101110101 11101011101 1101111101 0101010011 1111010111 1101000101 1101010111 1111010101 1101011101 11001011010 0101000101 1 10011010110 10101110001 0111110111 1101111101 1111110011 1111010101 11010010101 1111011101 1100110101 11011010101 1101001101 1001000101 1001010001 0101010101 1101010011 1111010111 1111110101 0101010011 1101110001 0101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010110 0101010101 0111110101 1111110101 1001110001 1111110001 1111011101 0101110101 10001010111 1101010001 0101010001 0101011111 0101000101 0110100101 1011010101 0101010101 0101000101 01001010001 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101111111 0101110101 1001010001 11001110101 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 1001011101 110111111010 11010101001 1101110111 1101001101 111000111 1111110101 0101110101 1101010111 1101000101 1111011101 0101010111 1101110111 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 305
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, in, of, first, his, or, reason, and, diff'rent, with, it, as, that, on, those, happy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, in, go, or, the, that are repeated.
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