This is an analysis of the poem The True Man that begins with:
TAKE thou no thought for aught save right and truth,
Life holds for finer souls no equal prize ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc ebebffff ghhgiddi fddfhjjh kddkbddb fhhffXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 1111011101 1011110001 1101110111 0011110101 1111111011 1111011101 1111111001 1111111101 0101111101 1111010101 1011110101 1111110101 10110110111 1001010101 1001101101 0111100101 11011100001 0111011111 11001010101 0111111100 0101110111 1111111110 0101110101 1010010001 11110100101 111010101 10110100101 1101111101 11010011111 01110100101 1101100111 100101011001 01110101001 111111001001 0111110101 1111011101 1101110101 11110011101 1111111111 1111111111 1001110101 1111011101 11001110001 1100010111 1101011110 1101111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, hath, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, take, how, who are repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The True Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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