This is an analysis of the poem A New Temperance Poem, In Memory Of My Departed Parents, Who Were Sober Living & God Fearing People that begins with:
My parents were sober living, and often did pray
For their family to abstain from intoxicating drink alway;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bbaa cdee bbff ggff aahh iiff cdcc hhhh jjgg kkgg kkdd kkhhXaagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100101011001 11100001001010110 0111011001 11110101011 1101111111 110111011 010100100101 1110011001 111111010111 01111101 01011011111 101101010101 0111010100101001 011110011101 011100011101 110011100101 1110100111010 111011010 10101010111 1010010101 0100101001001 11111010000101 000101011101 0001000111 010010101001 010001111 1001011111 11111111101001 1001010101110 01111001011 101101010111 11010101011 10100101 10101101101 01110100111101 10111010110101 11010100111010 1100101010 110101010010 11011110 11010101011010 11010010101110 0101100111 110010101 0101101101110 110101110 110101111001001 1101010101 11100101001000100 110100001000100100 111001011010111 1010101010101010 1011101111 101101001 10110010010001 101011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, his, in, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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