This is an analysis of the poem Meditations Upon An Egg that begins with:
1.
The egg's no chick by falling from the hen;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbaaaaccXdee X ffaaffaa X aaddXXddgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,8,1,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0111110001 1101011101 011101001 1101011101 01111101010 11111101110 01110101010 110011101010 0111011111 0101111111 0111011100 0111011111 1111010111 0101011101 1 1101011101 1001010101 0101110101 0111010101 1101110101 1101001101 01011110010 10010110010 1 1111000111 1111000101 1111111110 1111010111 1111011101 110010101010 1111111101 1111010110 1101101101 1111110111 1001110001 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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; doth, rotten, some, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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