This is an analysis of the poem Could We As Mortals that begins with:
Could we as mortals but our end foresee,
How little in our minds the world would be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 1100110110 1111010101 1001010110 1101011111 110111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; we, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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