This is an analysis of the poem Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum that begins with:
O steep and rugged Life, whose harsh ascent
Slopes blindly upward through the bitter night! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaabcabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1111000101 1101010101 01010111001 0111011111 1101000101 1111110001 1111010101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and are repeated.
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