This is an analysis of the poem Johnsonian Address that begins with:
.“Let observation with extensive view
“Survey mankind from China to Peru”—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccdXdAAefaaddbbcc cceXgghhbbiXaaaaj j eebbjjjkkggllee ccfXaXccgg XXcccceemmiiiinndd ooppbbqqccaagggg jjXqoo iieebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,17,1,15,10,18,16,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101000101 0111010001 1101100100 0111010110 1111010001 1011110101 11000100101 0111010110 11110110101 1101000101 0111010001 11010010101 1101010101 1011001101 0111010001 11000101101 0011011101 1011001101 0100010001 1101111101 1110010001 1101010101 1111011101 1110011101 0100100 110100101 01010010111 10000010101 1000110011 1101010101 0111001011 100100110100 11011100100 1101011101 1101100101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1111111111 1101000101 0101011101 1111000100 11001010111 1111010001 0101010001 0110110100 1101010101 1101110100 0100000101 1110010111 0101110101 1101010001 1101010101 0101010111 1111010011 0110110111 1011110101 101111111 11010110101 1111010011 1111110001 1110011101 1101011101 0101110111 1111010101 1011010011 0101011111 01100010001 0101110001 0101000111 10010010101 1101001101 0101000101 01001000101 11001101010 110001001001 01010111001 1111010001 010100011 1101111101 0101010011 110111001 1101010110 1101100100 000100010100 111001000100 1101111101 1101010101 0011100111 01001111101 0011110001 11001111011 1111010101 1001001101 1110011001 0011110111 10110001010 10110100110 1111010101 100010001 111111010 0101000111 10110100010 00110111010 1100010101 0101001111 1001110111 11000010001 11010101110 10101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, this, in, where, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, but are repeated.
The author used the same words let, and, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase two connects the lines.
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