This is an analysis of The True Man by Sir Lewis Morris.
TAKE thou no thought for aught save right and truth,
Life holds for finer souls no equal prize ;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc ebebffff ghhgiddi fddfhjjh kddkbddb fhhffXfc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111111111 1111011101 1011110001 1101110111 0011110101 1111111011 1111011101 1111111001 1111111101 0101111101 1111010101 1011110101 1111110101 10110110111 1001010101 1001101101 0111100101 11011100001 0111011111 11001010101 0111111100 0101110111 1111111110 0101110101 1010010001 11110100101 111010101 10110100101 1101111101 11010011111 01110100101 1101100111 100101011001 01110101001 111111001001 0111110101 1111011101 1101110101 11110011101 1111111111 1111111111 1001110101 1111011101 11001110001 1100010111 1101011110 1101111101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, hath, all
Anaphora
though, take, how, who
