This is an analysis of the poem Do Not! that begins with:
Do not despair of man, and do not scold him,
Who are you that you should so lightly hold him? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffdXbbccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111111 11111111011 11110011011 1111111111 111100110110 11110101100 11010010001 11010011101 1111111101 11111011111 1111101101 01001111011 1011010111 100100010100 01011000111 01001010101 111111111010 100110010100 01111001011 1101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 928
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, not, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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- summary of Do Not!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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