This is an analysis of the poem The Miseries Of Man that begins with:

1 In that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd,
1 For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccaadd eeffgg hhXdaaiijjgggg XcaaeeggccXXbXkkaaeebb ddllccbb mmhhbbhhaahhbbggXXXkbbaaXg nnkXooccnXcc aabbggppaaaaaaaXjjeebbggeee nnhhaaddjXppbb qqaaaa eekXcieeqqhhccaacc ccggddXgXhaagXnnccggggggbb ppXaccqqddggkkqqeeXXgggg rrggkksslXll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,14,22,8,26,12,27,14,6,18,26,24,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011100101001 11011001101 11011110101 1110010010101 111011111 101010011111 11101011011 11100010101 11011010101 11011010101 10111010111 10101010101 10001111101 10100010001 11011010101 10111010101 11001011101 11101000101 11101010011 11101010111 11101110111 10011111101 11101011101 11111110111 11100011100 11101010100 11101010101 11101010101 11010110111 10101110001 11101110111 11001110101 11111111110 11011010101 11111111101 11111111111 10101010101 11101010111 11101111101 11011110111 11001011101 10101110101 10111001111 11100010110 11000111101 11111111101 11010111101 11101010101 11111110101 11111111101 11101111101 11101110101 11101010111 11111110101 11111010011 10100011101 110001011111 11101101101 11010100111 111110010101 110111101001 11111001101 111001101010 111010101010 10101000101 11101110001 11101001101 11101010101 11001010101 11001111001 10111011111 11101111111 11001010101 11001010111 11100010101 11101110111 10101010001 10101110101 101010101001 11001010101 10101011110 10111011101 11101010101 11111101111 11011000101 111010101111 11001010111 11001110101 11110110011 11111001101 111011110101 11101110110 111010101011 10101010001 11111110001 11100110001 10101011101 1011101011 10011111111 11111110111 11110101101 10101110101 11111100101 10111010101 1011011111 101011000101 11111110101 11101010101 1110011100101 11100010011 11111110101 11101110111 11111110101 10100101101 11001111111 10101010101 10101110101 11101110101 11001010111 11101011101 11101110101 11111110101 11101110101 11110011101 10111010111 10111011101 111111000111 110010011001 10110010011 10101110111 11101110101 1111110011 11101110101 111011011 10111100011 11001010101 11101110010 11001010101 1110111101 1110010111001 11110011001 11011010111 10101111001 11101001101 11011111101 11101010101 11101010101 11101011101 11111011101 10101011101 11111101010 11101011100 11011010100 10111010101 11001110101 10101010111 10101010101 111011000101 10101011111 1111110101 11101011001 11101110001 11011001101 11111010101 111001100011 11101101101 11111010111 11101011111 10111000101 11100010111 11101010101 10100110010 11101010101 11001110110 10101100101 11101110101 101010101101 11101010111 11011110010 10101110111 1110111101 11101010101 11100010111 10111110011 11101010001 11101111111 11101011111 11111010101 101110001101 11101110101 10010111101 11100100111 1101010101111 111001001010 110110101001 11011010101 110010101001 110111110011 11111010111 1101110011 1011010101 11111101101 11111111101 111010010111 101010110101 11101010101 11001010101 11100010111 11101010101 110011111010 11111100111 11111111101 10101110001 111010001101 11101110111 11111111001 10101011101 10101111111 11001111101 111010011101 111010101111 11101111101 11111011111 11110110101 11101010110 11011110101 111010000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 228
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, i, and, thy, with, not, in, her, but, his, or, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 1, 82 are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Miseries Of Man;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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