This is an analysis of the poem Faith And Hope that begins with:

Don't look up to them-those
who have lost faith and hope. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefg addchi dcXhX XjfdffX XXkfdccdfX jXlji hbjg egld ahkagh fmeaj fkfXh dmkaX ieXe mhgXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,5,7,10,5,4,4,6,5,5,5,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 111111 111110101 010110010 010100 10111101 00101 0111100101 100010101101 010010 0110000111 100110010110010 110101010111001001 110100101111111 10001101010010 001001 110100010 00101011000 11100010010 00100010 1101111011100 1110110101010 11101111 1010010011 01111010 11100100111 101111111 1011110 010010101 1111101100 110111010001 11010001 111010010 011101111 111011 110010100100 1011111000 1010011100 011011 101111 1010010110010 0100101110101 100110100 01001100101 111010100110 11011111001 1101001000100 10100110 0101101001 0101001 11011010010 111110011010 11001110111 01010 01011111001 1010001101101 1110110100 101010010101 1011 1110101010010 11010101010 000100110101 1111 11110111 011101110100010 110001101 01010101110 1011011000 0101010010110 101010011 1010110100100 0101010 101011110100 111011111 1111111 1111 0100101100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; them, of, they are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words they, possessing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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