This is an analysis of the poem Right Apprehension that begins with:
Give but to things their true esteem,
And those which now so vile and worthless seem... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdee cdffbbbb aacdggbb ffhhaaii jjeecXkk cchhggkk hhkkgXjj llkkggkkgggg bbgkccee ffiifXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,12,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1111111101 01111101 1111010101 1111 0100 11100101 10100101 10110100 1101010100 11010101 1111010111 1111 1101 01010101 1100110101 11011101 1111011101 11000100 0101010100 1111 1101 01010101 0101110001 01010101 1000010101 11010101 01110010101 0101 0101 010110001 1001001101 11010100 1101010111 11001111 1111010011 0111 1000 11010111 01001010100 01011100 10011011101 110111 1010010101 1101 1101 11000101 0101100101 11010101 0100010011 11110011 0101111111 1101 01000 11011111 1111110101 011101 1101100101 00110101 1001010100 0111 1111 0111111101 1100110001 1111 1111 01100111 0100011101 1101011 110110011 11010110 100010101 0111 1101 11010101 11100111111 11010101 1100101101 01111101 11100001001 0101 1100 11011101 1011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, than, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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