This is an analysis of the poem The Riddle Of The World that begins with:
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
The proper study of Mankind is Man.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbXXXccddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110011101 0101001101 1101000101 0101011101 0111010101 011101011 1101010111 0101010111 0101110001 1101110101 1011010111 1001110101 1101011001 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, in are repeated.
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