This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle that begins with:
I.
Master and Sage, greetings and health to thee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abababXc X dededeff X ghghghii X hjhjhjkk a clclcljj a mcmcmcbb X ananongg X ghghgXee X pcpcXchh e bhbhbhkk a lclclcll X nhnhnhhh X llllXlll X nlnlnlcc X hbhbhbqq X acacaccc X rrrrrrhh X ccccccaa X crcrcroa X XpfpfpXc X ahahXhii X e
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1011101101 0111010111 0111110101 1101110101 1011010111 11010010111 10110011010 0111010101 1 1101110111 1111010101 01011111101 1101010100 11110101001 1011001101 01110100110 110101011001 1 11010001101 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101011111 1110111101 11111101010 11110101110 1 1101010011 11000110111 1011100111 1011111101 0111011101 0111110111 11111101011 0010010111 1 0110111111 0111011101 0101010101 01001010101 1101011101 1110011111 1100110101 1010110111 1 1111010011 01001010111 1100110101 1101011111 1111011011 1011111101 10011010101 1111110011 1 0111011101 0101010101 11111100100 01001011101 1111110100 1111111111 11010011101 1011111001 1 11010010011 01011110010 1101011111 110011111010 11110101101 11011001100 1101110001 1011010100 1 0101111111 0111111101 1101011101 1101011001 11001010100 1101010101 0100010101 0111110011 1 1111010101 1101101101 0011000101 1001010101 1110010101 0101001111 1001111011 1011010111 1 1111111101 1111011101 01011111111 0101011101 0100110111 1101010101 10101011101 1111010101 1 1111111111 1101010101 0001110101 1111010111 11001011111 0101110111 1101011101 11010110111 1 1111011101 1101111111 111110111 0101110111 11010111000 1101011101 1001010111 10111010101 1 1111110111 1101011111 10111011101 0111011101 1111010101 1111111101 1101101111 01010111011 1 1101001101 0101110101 1111110011 0100110101 1011010111 0101010101 11110101010 11011111110 1 1101001101 1101111101 110110011001 1011011101 01010010101 1001011111 01110011101 1101010001 1 1111010101 1001011101 0101010101 1111100111 1111111101 1110010101 1111011111 1111110001 1 1011001111 11001100111 11011100101 01010010001 1011011111 1100110111 01010111001 11100010111 1 1111001111 1011111111 0101110011 1101000101 1001010101 1011110101 10001001100 1111010111 1 10111111000 1100010101 0100011111 10011001101 1001011111 1111011011 11110101000 11000101010 1 1011110101 0111110111 1101011101 1111011111 1101011111 0100110101 10111101110 11010101110 1 1111010111 11011100101 1101010001 101011111 11001010101 1101011111 11110100111 1100010100 1 1101011111 1101011111 0110010101 1100110101 1101111101 0100110101 0101011101 1111110101 1 1101011111 1101100101 1101111101 1100011111 1001110111 1101110101 11011100111 1011111101 1 1101010111 1101100111 1001010101 01010000111 1111010101 1001010001 1101010011 1001011101 1 1101001101 0101010101 1101010101 0111000101 1001011111 1101110111 1111110101 1111111101 1 0001011101 0101110101 1011111111 1101010101 1011110101 1101111101 1011111101 0111110011 1 1101010101 0011010101 1001011101 10001010111 1001100101 1101111111 10010110111 1111110111 1 1101010011 1111010111 1101011101 1001011100 0101110101 1101010111 01010101010 01010111010 1 1111010101 1011100101 0111010101 11010101011 1001010101 01010010001 1111101110 010101100 1 1100111111 110001100111 1111010101 1111111111 1111010101 11011011110 0101101101 1001010001 1 1111110101 01010101010 1111111101 11110111010 11110010111 01010010010 1101010111 1101010100 1 0111000111 0101110101 0111010111 0101011101 01101010011 0101010101 1111010111 1101011101 1 1111111101 1111110101 11010100001 1111111101 1101111101 1111110100 01111101001 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 68
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 339
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, thy, my, to, no, our, and, still, his, he, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, our, how, on, still, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of An Epistle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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