This is an analysis of the poem Essay On Man that begins with:
The First Epistle
Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeffggbbddhhgiddjjbbggbbaacc ffjjffXXXeccddkkaaddjjddaabbXXffcleejjgghh eehhccffXXaaffgghheemmffccXXeeffnncl jjooXeggffbbXbaabb ddXXhhbbbXffppbbddjjbbbbdXbbffbbeeggffqqdd ggbbaaffjjeeddaaffggccXXXgddbbaXbb bbjjmmddXfddhXddngXfddccdd rrhhddccXbfXss
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,42,36,18,42,34,26,26,20,14,1,2,18,1,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010 0111111101 0101010101 1111110101 1101011101 100011010101 0101110101 01111101001 1101001001 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 0111011101 1101110101 1101010111 1111010111 11000010101 11101011101 1111010111 0111110101 0101010101 11100010101 1101110011 1111100011 1111011101 0111000101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111111 1001010101 0101010100 0101110101 1111010101 0011111001 1101011111 101001010111 1111110111 1011010101 1111010111 1011011111 1011010111 1101010101 11010111110 0101000110 1101001101 1111110100 1111010101 1001010111 110111111 11010101011 0100011111 0101110111 1101110001 01011100101 0101011101 0111010101 1101011101 1111110001 0111001101 1011110011 1101111101 1011111101 010011111001 1011111101 0101011101 1111110101 0101010111 1101010111 01001010100 1111010101 1101101111 0101000111 0101010101 0000100101 1101111111 0101010101 1101010001 11011010101 1101011011 01011011101 1111010101 0111010101 1111011111 1001110101 1101110101 1100010101 1111010111 1101011101 0101010101 1011000101 1101011101 11010100101 1011011101 1101111101 1111001101 10101000101 1100111001 0101010101 11100000101 101100110001 1101111001 0111010101 1101011101 1101000111 01011111001 1101010101 11001000101 1111110101 1101110111 00100100010 11110111010 1101001101 0101111100 11101101101 1101001100 1101011101 1111110111 0111011111 1101010101 0101101111 0110110101 10010100101 1101000101 0101011101 1111110001 11010101100 1101010101 0100010101 0100010110 1111000101 01010110101 11111010101 11111101011 1111010101 1011111101 10011010101 0110010101 1101010101 11110001001 1101110111 11111100010 1111000101 0101110101 1111011101 1011110001 10110010101 1111011101 10101111101 11010100111 0011010100 11010111111 11110101010 01111101010 11010011101 1111010111 0111111101 11010101000 1111110101 1111011101 1101000101 1111010111 01011101001 0111011101 1111010101 0101010001 1011010101 0111001101 1101110101 11010100001 1110110101 1101010001 0101010101 0101010101 11101110011 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110011 1111110101 1001010101 0101010101 1101101001 1001010101 1001010001 1001110001 1111110001 0101011101 1101110011 0101001101 0101111101 0101110111 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 1011010101 1101010101 101010110101 11010001110 0111011101 1110010101 1001010101 0101000101 1110010001 1111111111 0101010101 1111001011 0101011101 1111010101 01010010101 11010101001 0011000101 1101011101 0101101011 010111001 1110010101 0100011101 0111010101 0101111001 1111110101 00111111001 0101110101 1101000101 0111010001 11110101100 1101011101 0101010110 1101010101 11010011101 1101110001 0101010110 0101011101 0101011101 0111011101 11101010101 1101110001 0111010111 0111110101 1101010101 1010010101 1111111111 1111010001 01010101001 01010100111 1001010101 111100110100 0101110111 1111010101 1011000101 01010010101 0101010111 1101010111 1101000101 1011110101 1101001101 1011011111 1101001101 1101000101 1011011111 111101100 11001010101 1101010001 1001011110 0111000101 1101010111 0101010110 1111010101 1101001101 1111110101 100110101001 1001010001 1001110001 1111011101 1101010101 1011011101 1110100111 1110101111 1011010111 0111111111 1111011101 11111010101 1101011111 1111010101 0101010111 0100110101 0100111111 1001010101 10001101010 1100110101 1101011111 1101001101 1101010100 1101010101 110110000010 1000010010 001011010010011110100010011010011 01001 1110011101 0101001101 11010001010 0101011101 0111010101 011101011 1101010111 0101010111 0101110001 1101110101 0101000101 1011110111 1001110101 1101011001 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110001 100 1110111100 110 10100 10101 10011010 110100 10010011010 11010010 10 11010110 101011111010000101 1010010001111101001 10101111110010001010 100001111 111011110101010100 111 1010010110001 111 1 101101 1001001100 10 1 1011010100100 100100110101010 100 100 110101001101100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1038
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 344
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; but, what, of, man, we, to, why, so, some, and, or, from, he, no, be, angels, for, me, when, as, who, this, all, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, what, his, some, aspiring, for, as, who, that, all, with, in are repeated.
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