This is an analysis of the poem But One Talent that begins with:
Ye who yourselves of larger worth esteem
Than common mortals, listen to my dream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX eebb ffgg XXbb ddbX ffhh ffee Xibb ggaa jXhh iikk bbjX Xfdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110010101 1101010011 11010011001 010001 01010001111 1101110111 1011011111 011101 1011110111 1101101101 1101010111 110111 1101010101 1111010111 0111011101 010101 10110101000 01110111110 1101010111 111101 1011010101 1101110111 1111110101 0101010 1101011101 0101100111 11110001001 011101 11011100101 1101010111 1101011111 110111 1101000110 01001100111 11010101001 010101 1101010111 1111010101 11110011111 110111 1111011101 0101001100 01001111101 110111 1111010111 1011010100 1101011101 010101 1101011101 1101010101 0111011111 1111001 10110001000 1101010101 1101110111 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word 'the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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