This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts (Excerpt) that begins with:
By Nature's law, what may be, may be now;
There's no prerogative in human hours.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcddacabecXfgeXaXcfgcabXhaXbXcaacXbbhebciXahbXXig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 11110001010 0101110111 1101010101 1001000101 1100010001 0101111001 0100010011 1101010011 1101110101 1101010111 1101100001 1110011001 1111010110 1101110111 1101100101 0101010101 0101001101 1101010001 0101110001 1101010001 1111001101 0101000101 1101011111 1001000101 0101010101 0111011001 1111000101 0101000101 0110111010100 1101010101 1101010001 1111110111 1001011101 1111110101 1100111101 1101110101 11010010101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010011 1100110101 11110011101 0110101101 1001011101 1101110011 1101010101 1011010101 1101010001 1001010001 0101000001 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2278
- Average number of words per stanza: 386
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; this, as, their, they, in are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase beware connects the lines.
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