This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Formed In Vain that begins with:
Let no presuming impious railer tax
Creative wisdom, as if aught was form'd... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadbXdcbXXcbbeeXacbXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010101 0101010111 0111110001 1101010001 0101010101 1001010001 1001010101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 11111010101 1101011101 1010011001 1010011101 0101010101 0100010001 0101010001 0101011001 1101110101 11010100110 1101110011 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1010
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of is repeated.
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