This is an analysis of the poem From An Essay On Man that begins with:

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeedd ffbbaagg ddccXXaaddhhc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011010101 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
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; from, to, he, and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.

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