This is an analysis of the poem Vanity Of All Worldly Things, The that begins with:
As he said vanity, so vain say I,
Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaaccddXXbbeXffgghhbbddiiddeebbddXcXaggbbaaccbbjjaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001111 1100111101 10011110111 11010101010 10001000111 1111110111 1111111111 1101011101 10001110001 1111010111 11110111110 00011101011 1110010111 1111110101 010010101110 1101011101 10001011101 1101011101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010101 1011010011 1101010101 1100100001 1111011101 1111110001 1001011101 1111111111 1101111101 1101111111 01010101110 11010101110 111111111 1101011111 10011100111 1101110110 1110110101 1111011101 011111111010 0111011100 11001011111 0101011101 110100111 11110001001 0101011101 0101111101 0101010101 1101000101 1111011111 1111110101 01010101001 100101101 1101111101 1101100100 0100010101 1101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2577
- Average number of words per stanza: 470
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, it, of, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, nor are repeated.
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