This is an analysis of the poem All Is Vanity that begins with:
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How vain is Life! which rightly we compare... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a baabccdeeaeffeghghhhicci X hXfhjjaaiieeeeaaaffkkllgabbagihhillccii X hhlmmhfhflnoonXXppffffhiihppaaahhhhllpbbpdheX X daadflXfiiffflllXllhhaabbhhbfllfbaiillabbccaaafeeffppfee a hcchdppbhbbhhmmfggfpeepiiqhhqccmmcmm a lflfldhhhhdhdbllbiillkXlklXccaqqaaaheo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,24,1,39,1,45,1,56,1,36,1,55,1,46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1101110101 01011101 0111000101 0111010101 1110000111 11010101 1111111110 01011100111 0101010101 01011011 10101101 10010101 01011001 1111101101001 1101110001 1111010101 0011000101 100111001101 1001010101 0101011110010 1011010101 0110010101 1001011101 110011111101 1 0101000100 10010110 11000101 1001011111 01001010101 1011110101 1111010101 1101010101001 1001010101 110101110001 1100010111 010100111001 0100101001001 0101010111101 1101000101 1111000101 1100101010101 1101111001 1001010101 10110101001 11010111 0111001101 1000000101 10011110101 01010101 01010101 0110001 1001110010101 010101001101 1101101101 111001101 0101010001 010100101001 1101010101 1001011101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101001 110111110101 1 0101110001 1001000101 11100101 1110111 1010101 1010001 10100101 10010011111 1101110101 110101 1011010001 1010101 1001000101 010101010101 11010110101 110101110101 11000101 1100101110101 1100110101 01010101001 0110101001 01001010101 11111010101 0111010001 0101000101 011101110101 1001010101 0110010101 1100010101 0101010101 110101110001 1111110101 1011011101 1101111101 01010001001 1101010101 110101110101 11111001001 1001010001 1101010101 0101010101 01110101010 1111010111 01011010101 0101010111010 1 11010111010 1001110101 0101110101 11100100110 1101100101 1110001101 1101110001 0101010001 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101100101 111101110101 11010010101 01000101 110101110101 0110010001 0111010101 0101101101 10011010101 1101011001 010111101 11001010111 0111001101 101101010101 1001010101 11001110101 11010100101 1010101 01010001 0101010101 01010101001 010101 1011010101 01000101 1111010101 10010101001 0101010101 010101 1101001101 1011001111 1101010101 1101111101 1101010001 11001110101 101111110101 1101010011 11010001001 100101110111 1111000101 1001010101 01010011 01000101 1001110101 0001011101 111001010101 1 1111010101 10101101101 1101010101 010101010001 110101010010 1101010101 0101010101 1111101101 0101101101 11000101 1101010001 0110110111 010101110101 1101011001 1101010101 11001000110 1011101 1011100101 0101011101 11011101 011010101 0101010101 1101110001 1111001101 101110111 0101010011 1101010101 1101010101 0100101010101 1100011011 11010111 1101111101 1001000101 0100110101 1100111111 110101111101 1 1101010001 0101000101 01111001 10100010001 111101111001 11111100110 01010101 011100010101 0101101101 10010101 010101001010 1101010101 1101011101110 1101011101 11010100001 10110100101 10010111011 00010101 010100101 1001010101 11001011010111 0101010101 0101000110 0101110101 110111 1110100101 01110111010 11011101 1100000101 01001001101 1001011101 01100110101 010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 1111010111 111111110101 1101110111 1101110101 11010101 1011011101001 110101100101 10011101010 100101010 110100010001 01010101 1101110101 11001010101 110101 1001010111 0101010101 11001001001 100101111101 1 1111110101 01110101 1001011101 01010101 1101000101 11100010101 10110001 111001001011 1111001110011 1101010101 01010101 1111110101 1101101001 110101011101 1111110001 11110101 10101110101 110011010101 11110101 11011100 0101011101 0111010101 10011010101 110101010101 1111110101 01010101 1101010001 000101010101 111010011 0111010101 1001010010001 1100011001 1110010001 100101001010 1011110001 0011000101 0101010 0101011111 1011110101 1101111001 1111110101 1011110101 1101000101 1100111101 1101110101 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 913
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 308
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, of, with, and, in, where, what, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, as, the, what, a, from, where, without, whose, when, till are repeated.
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