This is an analysis of the poem Emerson that begins with:
MISFORTUNE to have lived not knowing thee!
’T were not high living, nor to noblest end, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbbbdbdbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100111101 10111010101 1101110100 1101001111 01010010100 11011110101 10111111101 0111000111 1111001100 1101011111 10011100101 1011110111 0111110100 0100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; not, to, and are repeated.
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