This is an analysis of the poem An Anatomy Of The World... that begins with:

When that rich soul which to her heaven is gone,
Whom all do celebrate, who know they have one... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbcddeefgffbchhggiihjaajjaaXXkkggddggaaccgXllffggiihhmmhjffggaakkffgghhhhbcddjhaannggoohjoohjaaXffXkkkkooggaammhjhhaaffkkffpphhXXccaaggkkbbaaaaggbcffbbXohhiiddiibbXgccooffXhggmmXjbcjhaaffddffkkddaahhhhfffffXbXaaffhhooaaaahhkkffooqrqrbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 239,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111001001 11110111111 1101110101 0111110100 1111011110 1111111110 1111010111 11110101001 1101010101 11011001011 010111110 1001010101 1101010101 1100100011 1001011100 0111110110 1100101111 1101000011 0101000101 11011101001 1111110101 1111011101 1111101100 1101100100 0101111111 1111010111 1111111100 1111111100 1101011101 1001111101 1101111111 10111011100 1101100101 0101011001 0101010111 1101010101 0101111111 1110010111 1111011101 100111010 11100011111 1001110011 1101100101 1100110001 0011110101 1111011101 11110101001 0101011001 0011010010 1111010111 1011000111 111101010 0101011111 11011010101 1100110101 1111110011 10101110100 1100011101 1111111101 1111110100 0111110111 0111001101 11110101101 111101010 0101001101 010100010 1101010101 1110010011 0101100111 01111001001 0111010100 0100101101 0111111011 0110010011 1001000111 0101111100 0101010100 0101011100 1100110001 1100110101 1101100100 1101010000 10010111001 0111010100 1011010101 1101110011 0111010101 0101010001 1011011101 1101111111 1011010111 1101100100 1110110101 1111011101 1111001101 1101111100 0111111101 110001010 1101011000 01110100011 1011011101 1101100100 1000111111 10100110001 1111011100 1101111111 1101111111 1101001101 0101010101 1111010111 1111111111 1011111111 1101110101 1100011101 1111010111 0101100100 1001111101 0010010111 1111000101 1111010101 1101110111 11011100001 1101111001 0011011101 1101010101 011001011001 1001111101 1001100001 0111110101 1001111111 110010101010 11110101011 11011100101 0011110111 1101010101 1000111101 1101110101 11000011111 0101110011 1111110001 0111001101 0101010111 1100110111 10111011111 1011111111 0100011111 1001011101 1011111101 1101010011 1001011101 1111110111 1111011111 1101110111 0111011001 1101011110 0101111111 0111010111 1111011111 0101011111 1011001101 1101110001 1100110111 1001010101 1111001101 0111010101 0001001011 0111011110 1111010101 0111111000 1101011110 0101011101 1111110101 1101111001 0011011101 1011010100 1111010101 1011011101 1111101101 1101011111 01001010101 1001111101 1101010100 11011111100 11011010110 1111110100 01101011101 1101111101 0101001010 110111011 0111111111 1111100111 1101110101 1011111101 0101010101 0101011101 0100010101 11011101001 1011010001 0101110111 1111100101 10010011001 1101010001 11001110111 1101010100 1101001101 01000100111 0101111111 1101110110 1101011011 1001010100 1111011110 01010100100 1101010101 110111010 1011011101 11001011111 0001011110 1011011011 0001010111 1111100101 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 11011100101 0011000111 1100110111 1111110100 0111010100 1001111111 1011010101 1101001001 1111110111 11110011101 0111010100 1010110101 11010101000 1101111110 1111010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 10655
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1900
  • Amount of lines: 239
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, and, thou, long, prince, one, we, not, that, in, man, she, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the, she are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.

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