This is an analysis of the poem Self–love And Truth Incompatible that begins with:

From thorny wilds a monster came,
That filled my soul with fear and shame;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeccffgghhdXeeiiffeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 11110111 01010011 11011101 11010111 01110001 11010101 01011101 10011001 01010101 01001111 01110101 01011101 111100111 11010110 11010111 11111101 11001111 11101101 01011101 11111101 110111010 11010111 01000101 11011101 11010011 01010101 110011101 11110101 11110101 01010011 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 210
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

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