This is an analysis of the poem A Description Of Justice that begins with:
But Justice had no sooner Mercy seen,
Smoothing the wrinkles of her Fathers brow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbccc dXdddXXX efeXXXXX fdcXdgXg hiXjjXee iciccjjj kdkddddd dlXllmmi jXjXidXd dXdXXnnn dddddddd cmcmmddX dedeecXc aXXjXefe eaeaaccc jgjgXcXc ekekkhkX blbllhhh djdjieee abXbbaaa joXooccc adaddgXg pdpddccc jdjddccc eiXiilll gXgXdeee XkXhhjjj agaggkkk lbl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1001000101 11111100101 1101000101 10011111 1001110101 110110010101 1101010100101 1101000101 11011000111 1101011101 0101111101 0101110111 00010110010 01000111010 1011010101110 1100010011 0101101100 011011101 0100110111 100011110 10010110010 010010101010 1001011001110 011000100 110101101 0100011101 11000100110 1101010101 100111111 0111110101 11101110111 101101111 1101010101 01011111010 0101011101 011111101 1100111001 1101110101 1000010010101 010111100 1101011101 1101110101 1001111100 1101110101 110101101 110111011 11011111101 0111101010 110101111 111100111010 0111011001 1101011101 10111111010 11010101010 1111110101010 1001011111 110101101 1101000110 1001011101 1101010101 1011010101 10010010011 110010100010 1101011101 0101110101 0011010001 1111110101 0101010111 1111010111 10010010101 10010101101 0101111101 011101111 011101111 111101110 110101010 1011101101 01010101111 101111100101 1101110001 1111001111 1100111101 0111010001 1100110001 1111010101 110101101 011111110101 1111011111 1111011101 0101010001 1110011101 1111010111 011010101 0111010101 101111001101 010010110101 110100100101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010011 1111110111 0101010101 11011110011 01001010111 0101101110 1101011101 1100010110 001101101 1111011101 10110101010 110111011101 01001010111 1111111101 1101110101 11001010111 0101110001 01110010100 1101011101 110101101101 1111111111 1100111101 1111111111 1101111101 0001100100 100111101 0111011111 111101110101 1110010101 01001111010 1001011101 01100101010 101000110010 1110111111 0101110010 111111010101 0101101111 01011110101 0111010011 10010100101 01010011111 1011100101 1111011101 1110111101 0111001101 0110001111 0101110001 0101011001 101101111 1111111101 1101001101 11110101110101 1111110101 1101010111 10010100110 1111011111 111100101 1111111101 1101001101 110101011101 01011000101 110011101010 11010111100 10010111010 11010111010 1101111101 0101011101 10011101101 1101110101 1101010101 1111011011 1011011101 0101010011 0101001001 1101111100 01110101011 1101010101 0100110011 0111101101 01010111101 101000111 1111010001 0111110101 01011011111 11010001010 001111101 1001100010 11011100101 0111100101 1101011101 111111001000 111101011101 0111010101 1011011011 10110010110 10111011001 1101010101 01011111101 11010101011 0111111111101 1001010101 1101010101 111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0111111101 0101110101 1100111110101 1100011101 0101010100 001001111 0101000111 1111111111 0101010101 1111111111 110101100101 0111010101 011100111010 101010111 11000101110 11111100010 11010101110 01010101010 0100110111010 01111001111 0111100101 011001111001 0101110111 1101110101 1011110110 1011011111 110111110101 0101111101 1001110101 0111010101 1101110111 11011101011 0111101011 01011101111 11011011100011 1111111110 1010011111 1111111111 1101110001 101100111001 1011010101 1101011101 11101010101 11010100110 1001101000 101111001 11001101001 1010011111 01101101010 1101011110 1101011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 256
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; her, and, with, of, would, to, he, that, all, or, might, look, not, than, him, heav'n, himself, his, mercy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and, his, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words the, his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase were connects the lines.
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- summary of A Description Of Justice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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