This is an analysis of the poem The Vanities Of Life that begins with:
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_
What are life's joys and gains?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbcdcd efefghgh ibibjXji bfbfklkl mhmhdede jfjfnana jljlhghg ogegngng jejeglgl aeaeaaaa ojojhlhl bjbjphpX ebebaaXa hjhjdodo lnXXbebe qhqhgjgj rdrdldld bdbdibib iaiaXgegXrgrglhlh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010010100100 111111 110101 111111 010101 100011 111101 100101 010101 0111010 0101101 0111010 011101 1101111 111101 111111 110111 111101 100101 111101 110001 111111 110100 011111 011111 1111001 111101 010101 110101 111111 111111 010101 110111 111101 110111 11001001 110001 010101 0101010 010001 01000110 111101 0100101 1100101 110101 1101001 110101 110101 111101 100101 010101 111101 111101 110101 111101 111101 111101 110101 010111 10110010 110100 110101 111001 110101 110111 110111 1001010 110101 0111010 110101 111111 1110100 111101 111101 1110010 111001 1101010 110101 111101 001111 010111 111101 01101 110101 010101 110101 110001 111101 111101 100101 111111 010101 110101 111101 110110 111011 110100 1111010 110101 1101010 111101 010111 010101 1111110 110101 110101 110001 110101 111101 111111 110101 110111 110111 111111 010101 110110 110101 111101 01001010 110001 1100010 110101 111101 0101101 110001 111101 110111 100101 110101 111101 110111 110111 110111 111101 1000101 010101 111101 110111 110111 110101 011101 101101 111101 110101 110101 110101 110101 110111 111001 111101 010111 111100 110101 110111 010101 110101 110011 110101 111101 010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 161
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and, doubt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, is, the, go, and, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word dost at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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