This is an analysis of the poem The World that begins with:

Wee falsely think it due unto our friends,
That we should grieve for their too early ends:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabbccbbccdeaaXaffgghhedXXffeeffiijjkkbXbbhhllaXddmmnnmmbbhhllaabbkkffiiiibbffbbggbbllbbeddemm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011011 1111111101 11010101001 1100011101 1111000111 1101010111 1011010001 0101010111 1101011111 1111010101 11011100111 1011110101 1101011000 10011100100 1101010101 1111010101 1100110011 1110010100 1011011101 1011010001 11110100011 1111111111 1101111101 0111110100 1111010100 1101111111 11110101010 10011100100 0101111110 1101110101 0101100100 1011110100 1101011111 0111110111 1111110001 1101011100 0111111101 1111011101 1111100111 1110011111 10101011101 1101101110 1000110001 1011010101 1111010111 1110010101 11011110001 1101110101 1011001101 1011010101 1011011111 1110001101 0111110101 1101110101 1111111111 1101110101 11110101101 0111111101 110010011001 1001010101 11010111101 1100110101 1011000101 1011100101 1101111101 1011000101 101110010 1111010001 1101010101 0101111111 1111001101 1101011000 0101011101 1101110011 1010010001 11100110100 1111110111 1111011101 1101101111 1101100111 1101100101 010010101001 1111010111 0101111111 1111000101 1111000101 1011011101 1001100111 1010011011 0100100101 11001100100 1111111111 1111111111 1111110100 1110011111 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 769
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, they, and, their, our, we, that, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The World;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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