This is an analysis of the poem Of The Son Of Man that begins with:

I. I honour Nature, holding it unjust
To look with jealousy on her designs;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabbabccbde fggffggfhhhhhh hiihhijhakakak daaeeaadlhlhlh kffkkffkgcgcmm kaakkaakfXfann nkknnkknmamaff Xfkkkkkkkkaoaoaa hkkhhkXheaaeea jediiedjhjjhjh mffmXXfmaccfmm oaaooaaoaffafa baabXaabgdgekk appaappaejjeje hffhhffhibbiib oX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,16,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101010001 0101001001 010010111110 01110001001 1101011110 1111011101 0101010011 1001010101 0011110111 00010100101 111111111 1001010101 1101110100 1101011110 11011110001 1111010111 1011010101 0101011001 0111010101 01110110011 0101010101 010100111 11100010011 0101111101 1101110101 0111110101 1011011101 0110110101 11001010111 01010001010 01110101010 1011010111 01000011101 11011101110 11010010101 01101000001 1110100101 0101100101 1101010001 1011010111 1100010101 1101011111 10100101100 1111011101 01010010111 00101010011 0111001101 1101011111 0011010101 0011010100 1101010101 1111110111 1001010111 1101110111 1001010101 1000010101 11111010011 1101101101 1111000101 1011010101 1011011111 1001110101 1001111101 1001110111 10010010111 0110111100 1111011101 110001111 110110101 0101011100 11101011100 0101001101 1001011101 0101010101 1011010111 1011001111 1011010111 0101011101 11111100100 0101010101 1001111001 01001010011 1100010101 1001011100 11111110001 0101010101 1001010101 11010001111 0100010100 0101010111 0101010101 0111010111 00111101001 1001010101 0111010001 0101011101 1101010111 1101011111 10 1 11111111 0111110101 0111110001 1111110101 1111010111 1111011101 0111110111 1100011111 0101011100 0101110111 1010010101 0110000101 1011110101 1110110111 11101000101 1111111101 1101110101 0101010101 1011011111 0111111011 1011010110 1101110101 10011010011 1101010101 1011011111 10011101001 01001101001 1111010111 11011110101 0111001111 1101011100 11011001010 101100101010 1100011100 1001110100 1011110101 1111010101 1001111101 0111010111 1111110101 1101110101 1111011111 11111011101 0111010101 1001010101 01001010111 1101001010 11010011110 1111010101 0101010111 11010111001 1101011100 1011111111 11011101011 100111111 1111010100 11111010111 1011010101 00010100101 110111111 01001010101 110100111 11111110111 1101010101 10010001101 1011011101 0101010111 1001011111 1101011111 0101011101 11011011011 1100010001 1101111101 0111011101 1110110100 1101111111 1111010111 0001010111 0111010101 1001010100 0101011101 1101011111 1100011111 00101010101 11011000101 1001011101 0101010101 0011001101 11010001001 1111010101 1001110101 1011110101 01111110111 1001111101 1111010101 1111000101 1101010101 1111011111 11111010001 1001010101 1101111011 1111010101 10011101101 1011111011 0101010111 11010011111 11110111110 1111110101 1011011001 110010000110 11010100010 0101011101 1 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; with, and, to, of, in, thy are repeated.

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

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