This is an analysis of the poem The Beasts' Confession that begins with:
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents
When beasts could speak (the learned say, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddcceeff ggddhheX ddcciieeggXdhhaX eeaaddeeff jXeeffXdiikk aaeeeeddccllaa eeaaaa Xdmmaaggnnoodd aajjddeedd ccaaffddcc ggppffddaaeeeeqqddffaXeejigg iiffrrllfaccccaaddrreeeeiiccffijeeccffjjggeeff bbddaabbqq ddssaafXbbeesseefffXeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,8,16,10,12,14,6,14,10,10,28,46,10,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010111011110 1111011 11111101 01110101 11111101 01010111 11110101 010100101 01001101 11010101 11001001 10010111 11010101 11011101 11011001 11011111 11111111 11010101 01101101 11010111 11011101 01010101 10011101 01111111 11110101 01011111 11010101 11011101 11011111 10000111 10011101 11110101 01110111 11100101 11010101 11011101 110100010 01001101 01110111 01010111 11001101 01010110 11011101 01110101 01010111 01001101 11110111 010101010 110101100 10010101 11010011 010100010 011001010 11111101 01101001 11010101 11010101 11010101 1101011 01010101 11010101 01011101 11010101 11111101 01010111 11010010 01110001 110101010 110101010 11110101 01001111 1101011101 1101110100 01011111 11010101 11111111 11010011 1001100011 110111011 010111011 110101010 10110101 11010111 01011111 11010101 11111101 01011101 1100011 11010001 11010111 01001101 11011111 01011111 01011101 01011101 111101010 110111110 11110101 11010101 01110101 11010100 110100010 111101010 01011101 10111001 110100101 1100011 11010101 10011101 111101010 111101010 111100010 010110010 010010011 010111011 11111101 01110001 11110101 11010101 11010101 01010101 1001010010 110100010 110100110 01110101 111101010 110101010 11110101 01110111 00111101 11011101 11010101 01110101 11100001 11010101 11010101 11110101 111011010 01011001 11011011 110100011 01011001 01000101 11011001 01010001 010001010 010101110 01011101 11110011 11110101 11010001 111111010 110100010 010101010 010111010 11010101 01010101 01001101 110100101 0100110100 1101010100 11010101 11101110 11010111 11011101 11010101 11111101 11011111 01000001 10010011 01110101 11110001 101100010 11010101 11011101 11110011 11110001 110111010 010101010 010101010 1101001010 11001101 11110101 11010111 01010111 11011101 11110001 01011101 010111001 11111001 11011111 11110101 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011111 11010101 01010101 110111111 011001011 11011001 11000111 10010111 110111001 11110101 01110101 011101110 010101110 11010101 10011101 11110101 11010101 1110001010 110111110 110101010 010101100 01010001 01001101 11111111 110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 516
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 221
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, he, his, and, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 'twas are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, it, him are repeated).
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- summary of The Beasts' Confession;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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