This is an analysis of the poem A Poetical Version Of A Letter From Facob Behmen that begins with:
’TIS Man’s own Nature, which in its own Life,
Or Centre, stands in Enmity and Strife, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddeX ffggcc bbccdd hhddii bbjjhh cckkii eehhcc iiccll ffiill hhmmii mmaadd ddmmhh cciiXX Xlbbnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010011 1101010011 1101010101 0111111101 01010101001 0111010101 0001010101 1100010111 0101110001 1101011111 01011100010 1111000101 1011010101 0101010001 1111110001 0101010001 1100010101 1111001101 1101010101 1001011101 0101001101 1001001101 1101011001 1101000110 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 1001110101 11010001101 1001010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101110001 1001010001 1001101101 1101010101 1001010101 1101000111 1100010111 1101000101 11010100001 0101011100 01010101010 10100001010 1101000101 0111111101 0101010101 0110110101 0101111011 0101100111 0101010001 0101010011 1111010101 1001110001 1101010001 1100110101 0011011111 1101011111 1101010101 01111100101 0110110111 1011010001 1001010101 0110110101 0101010101 1101110001 1001010101 1111010101 1001000011 1101010101 1111110111 0111010101 0101000110 1111010101 10110101001 0111110101 1101011101 1110010101 1001010101 110110001 1100100101 1101001001 0101010101 11010000101 1111001010 1001011111 0111010101 1001110111 0101000101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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; and, in, s, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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