This is an analysis of the poem An Allegory On Man that begins with:
A thoughtful Being, long and spare,
Our Race of Mortals call him Care:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXe ffbbgghh ddffiiaaiXXcdd Xdjj ddhh aakk jjll hhmmddhXaaaahhbbXdjj iiddcc eejjbb aakk cXhhddffkkbbhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,8,14,4,4,4,4,20,6,6,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11010111 01010111 11011111 01100101 11011111 01010101 010010101 01011001 10010101 01110101 10010101 11110111 01011101 11010101 110100101 11010111 11010001 110110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011111 01010101 10111101 1000101100 11010111 11010101 11111101 11110101 01011111 01110011 01010111 11110111 11010111 11010101 01110101 11110101 11111101 11111101 11010101 11110101 10010101 110100111 11010101 11000101 11110111 11111111 11010101 11011111 11010111 11010101 11110101 001100100 01010111 01010101 11110011 111101 01110111 01110101 11010101 11011101 01111111 01010101 11110101 01010011 11011111 111110001 100110111 110100101 11010101 11010101 11000101 11010101 01111101 11110101 11111111 01110101 11110101 01010101 11010101 11110101 11111101 10110100 111011101 01110101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11011001 11011101 11111101 11010101 11011101 110010101 11011001 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, she, his, let, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, let, and are repeated.
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