This is an analysis of the poem Meditations Divine And Moral that begins with:
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily
overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, and his ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdeefbXgXXhifjcjicjgXaXdbfjjXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111110100100 1001111111010010 11011100100100 01011011010100 1110100100111 111110010101111 1010 10101110010111 11101101010001 011101111010101 101111111001001 10 010001100101010111 1001110 01011011100101 101000111111111 11011111111001 1110100001111 100011101000101000 0101 10010011011111 001100101010100100 10110101 10101010110111110 10011111111001 011101101011110 01111000110110011 11101011111101 1011010110100101000 100101110001001 1111001111101111 10101001110111 10101001111101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1905
- Average number of words per stanza: 344
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, not, by, to are repeated.
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