This is an analysis of the poem The Virtuous Man that begins with:
Thus fears the man whom virtue, beacon-like,
Hath fix'd upon the hills of eminence;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbebebXbXfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101010100 1101001101 1101010100 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1111110100 1101000101 1101001101 0111011101 0101101101 0111010111 0110100101 11010010010 1101010101 01010101111 1110011101 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 863
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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