This is an analysis of the poem Sexegesima Sunday that begins with:
Foe of mankind! too bold thy race:
Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddaeea bbbffX bbghhg eecddc aaghig iiejje bbcccc kkgiig iileel ggmnnm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 11110101 11101110101 11110101 11010100 1111000101 110101001 01010001 0101011001 11010101 10011101 11110100101 11011101 01101101 01110101011 10110101 11010101 10111011110110 100011111 100111101 0100110101 110001010 1101010010 111101110111 010010101 010001111 0101010101 10010101 01010101 010111010101 0111111 01110100 0101011101 100101010 11110101 11001001110101 11010101 11010011 1011110011 10110111 00010111 1111110101001 01010101 011100101 1001110101 010101010 011011010 111101110101 01010101 11010101 11011011101 11011111 01011101 101101010101 11011101 010001001 1001010101 11110111 01110001 010101110101 11010101 01010111 01001110101 10110101 11110111 100101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sexegesima Sunday;
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- history of its creation;
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