This is an analysis of the poem Sketch In Verse, Inscribed To The Right Hon. C. J. Fox that begins with:
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,
How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dd eeffaaggeecc XXhhhhgg iijjbbhhkk Xggggaacchhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,12,8,10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011111 11011111111 1101010010010 011111011010 110110010110 111111010110 111010111110 111101110110 11011001011 1111100011101 01011101011 110010010111 01011011011 110010010111 010110010010 110111010010 011101111011 111001001101 0011010001010 1011010110010 1011010111010 11111010111010 111011011111 1011010010011 110010110010 110110011111 11001100010 110010011010 11111001001 11101011001 111011011001 111101001111 11001101001 001011001011 111011001011 11011001001 111110110010 010011011010 11001011001 11101111001 011110111110 010010111010 1110010011110 110111110110 010110110110 110111011010 110010011010 110111111110 111110111010 001111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, how, i, with, so, his, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, 'em are repeated).
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