This is an analysis of the poem An Hymn To Humanity that begins with:
I.
Lo! for this dark terrestrial ball...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcddc X ddeffe X ggeddX X eedffd a aaXgge a hhfddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110101001 10001011 010101 01010001 11011101 100101 1 01000110 01010111 1101001 11010001 010011101 1011101 1 100011111 101010101 1010101 101010101 100011001 101001100 1 11010101 11010101 110101 01000101 11111001 010101 1 111100101 01010101 1111010 01000101 101101101 110111 1 11010101 11110101 010101 01010101 01010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of An Hymn To Humanity;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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