This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0429 - 0438 that begins with:
To beget and rear a man is easier than to put good sense
Inside him. No one yet has ever contrived a way...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbabXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011101010010101 0111111100101 01010100101101 0010100101001 01011101101011 1011100111 101010101011001 10100111111 110010100101100110 0101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 547
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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