This is an analysis of the poem A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family that begins with:
ADOPTED in God's family and so
Our old coat lost, unto new arms I go. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccddeeeeffccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110011 1111101111 01111100101 1111001101 10110111101 1111111101 1111110101 0111010111 1110011101 1111011101 0101111100 1101111111 1111010101 1110110111 1011011101 1101101101 1101111101 010101010101 1011011111 111111001 1111110111 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; my, and are repeated.
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