This is an analysis of the poem Man's Injustice Towards Providence that begins with:

A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained,
In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccbb cccXbdddXaeeaaffeegghhecccccffccddaabbaaiiXac ceXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,45,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010011 11010110001 1111100101 0111010101 1101111101 0111011101 1101010101 0101111111 1100110101 0101011101 0101110101 1101110101 1010001101 0101110101 111101110101 11001101000 1101110001 1101010101 1111110001 1001110011 1111110111 1101011001 1101110101 1100110101 0111001101 1101011101 1101110101 1101001101 1111110111 1101010011 1011111101 1110010101 1101010011 1111110101 1111011101 1101000111 1101100101 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010111 0101110101 1101111101 0001010101 1111011001 1101110111 0101111101 11010100101 1101110111 1101010110 0111111111 0100110111 11001110101 1101011111 1001010010 1011110001 110011000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 904
  • Average number of words per stanza: 156
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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