Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion (Excerpt) by Edward Young: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion (Excerpt) that begins with:

Man's rich with little, were his judgment true;
Nature is frugal, and her wants are few;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccaaddeeaaffgghhXXbbiiee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 1001010111 1111010101 1101011101 1011111101 1101010101 1101100001 0101011101 0101010111 111111101 1101100111 1111010101 1001110101 1111010101 0101010101 11101010111 0101010001 1111111111 1111011101 110111001 1101110101 0111010101 0101001101 01000101110 0101000111 1101010101 1101011101 1111001111 1111011101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 230
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; she is repeated.

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

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