This is an analysis of the poem Adam Pos'D that begins with:
Cou'd our First Father, at his toilsome Plough,
Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1001111101 101000110001 1101100111 01010101010 0100101110010 1101111101 11010011001 0101000101 1101110011 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word t'have is repeated.
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