This is an analysis of the poem All Is Vanity that begins with:
FROM all that I have seen or heard
This world, is but an empty show,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca deXefdfd cgcgdddd hdhddidi didijcjc aXaXdjdj aaaaabaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 01011101 11010101 11010111 10011110 01110101 01011001 01111001 11010101 010101001 11111101 01010001 10010111 11101101 11100011 11110111 11010101 11111101 11110101 01010101 01011101 10011101 11011101 11110101 01110111 01111101 10010101 01010101 01010101 11000101 11011101 11011101 110100101 01010101 11011101 110101001 11011101 11111101 111100111 01011101 01011101 11110001 11111101 11111101 11111101 11110101 11010011 11110111 01011111 11110101 01000111 11010111 11110101 01010101 10110101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, to, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, what, may, those, we are repeated.
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- summary of All Is Vanity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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