This is an analysis of the poem On A Figure Of Justice With Bound Eyes that begins with:

Unhappy goddess! Has then envious earth
Denied thine eyes the radiance of thy birth?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXccddeeffccXb gghhggggee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01010111001 01110100011 1101111101 11001110101 1111011101 1111110111 0101011101 1111000100 11001101001 1001010101 1001010001 1101011111 11011101011 11001011001 11110101001 1111010101 1111111111 0110010100 1011001110 1011100101 1111111101 10110100101 11110111101 10110001001 11010001111 0101110001 1001011111 1111111101 1101010011 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thou, no are repeated.

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