This is an analysis of the poem The Fittest Only Shall Survive that begins with:
I stood alone, when all at once the scales
Fell from mine eyes, and lo, I saw the vales ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccccddeX ff bbgX X g ggfX Xhi iddbbh c cee jjbbaaiikkaa eeggffllmm ee cchhkklleX Xid X g g d d h h e e eebbddf fnneX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,4,1,1,4,3,6,1,3,12,10,2,10,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,7,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111101 1011111101 1101111111 100101010100 11010101001 1111110101 0101010101 1111010101 110101001001 0101110111 10101110101 01010101100 1111110101 11110001001 111111111100 1111111111 0101111111 01110110110 11111111101011 1111111001111 11111110111 1101111111 1101010101 11010101111 111011110101 1101111101 11111100111 11111010101 1011110111 0101011101 11001110101 0111110101 111101111 1 1101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1101011101 0101101101 0101010001 0111010111 0101110101 1101010011 11011101011 1111010001 1101111101 0101010101 1101001101 1101010101 1100111101 0101010001 1111110101 0101011101 1101011101 1101010101 0101000101 0101110101 0101001101 1101100101 11101110101 0101010101 0111010111 11101011111 1001010111 1101010011 1101111101 11001010101 1111010111 0101111101 1011011101 01000100100 111010101011 1010101010101 111010110101 11010011100 1101110111 1111110101 1101001111 1101011101 1111110111 0101010001 1101011101 1101010101 11111010111 0101010111 1111010111 1001011101 1011010101 0101110101 1101111101 1110010101 1111111101 0110110111 1111011101 01000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; on, ', made, i, that, dust, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ', the are repeated.
The author used the same word ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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