This is an analysis of the poem Vanity Of Vanities that begins with:
Be ye happy, if ye may,
In the years that pass away.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbb ccdd eeXf bbag hhAA eebb aaaX gacc eeffXeeAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110011 0001101 1111001 1111111 1010101 0011011 1010101 1011111 1110101 1111101 1110111 1111110 1111111 0011001 1110110 1001100 1111111 1011111 0110011 0001101 10101010 11111110 1010101 1110101 1100111 1011111 0111010 1000100 1111100 1111111 1111001 1010101 1111101 1100101 11011110 11100010 1011111 1011101 0110011 0001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, ere, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ere is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ye connects the lines.
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