This is an analysis of the poem First Epigram: Upon Being Contented With A Little that begins with:
1 We deem them moderate, but Enough implore,
2 What barely will suffice, and ask no more: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010101 11100011111 11111010001 11001001111 11101110111 1011010111 111110111000 111101111100 101011111001 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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