This is an analysis of the poem The Kind Word that begins with:

Speak kindly, wife; the little ones will grow
Fairest and straightest in the warmest sun.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbcdcdeebbbfbfaa bgbghdhdfccf eieijkjkkaajlljaaklklcleecjejamamiilblb cecejjclclccl bjbbjaajljljjjjnknkXlccjhjhooccbcbplplbblaabbqb qbbqekeekggjjgeememe lcclececmmjkjkeecgga bjbddjedelblberberbrbcfcfjjmjmlbblmlmlqqkakacclmml bkbkbbegbgrbbbccjjjjsbs
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,12,39,13,47,20,20,50,36,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1011000101 1111000111 1101111111 1111010001 1111110101 100101 1011110011 1101000101 1111010011 0101111111 1101011111 111111 101110101 100101 1101111101 1110110101 1101011111 1111110111 1111110101 1101111111 1001111101 1111110110 1101111101 1111110101 1101011001 111111 1111110101 0111000111 1110011111 0101001111 1101010111 1101011111 1111001101 1111011111 1101010111 1111011101 1011111101 1101010101 1101010111 1111011111 111101 1001110101 1001001111 1111010101 0111010111 11001010111 1101010111 1101110101 1111001111 101101 1100111101 1111110111 1011010101 0011010101 111101 1111011101 1101010101 1111001101 1101 0011110111 0011010101 1101110111 1111111101 1011011111 1101011111 0101010101 1101010101 1001 0011010101 0111110101 1111010101 1011110100 1101110011 0101011111 111101 1101111111 0001010111 1111010101 1111011111 1001111001 1111111101 1111010111 0111101101 1111011101 1111011111 0101110101 1011010101 1101100101 1111010111 1001110011 1011110111 1101010101 1100111000 111101 0011010101 1111000101 1001010011 1001110111 1111010101 0011011101 0101010111 1101 0101011100 0101100101 101111 1001000101 111111 1111110111 1111110101 1101111101 0101011111 0101010111 1111 1111010101 00110111000 1011111101 10010101001 1111110101 0101011111 1111010101 1101010011 0111111101 1101 0101011001 0101011111 1111011011 1111101111 010110101 1111 1111111101 1111001101 1101010101 0101000101 0101011111 1101011111 1101110111 1101110101 1001011111 1111011001 1101010101 0101001101 111111 1001111101 11011001101 011101 10110010111 11111101001 1101011101 0111010001 0111011101 1111011101 0011111111 1111010101 0101011101 1101111101 1101010101 1101110011 1111110111 1100010011 1101111101 110111 1011101111 1101111111 1111101101 1111110111 1101110111 11110111101 0111010101 010111100101 1101110011 1001001111 0111010111 1111110111 01010100101 111111 0111110111 1101100100 1101010101 1111101111 1111110101 0111011101 0101110111 0111110101 1001110101 1111011100 1111001111 1101011101 1101011100 1011010001 1011110100 101101 1111010111 1011010111 0111000101 0101011101 0110010111 1101111101 11001101101 1111010101 1001011101 1101011101 1001 0101001011 0101111101 0101010101 00111100001 10001010011 1111010011 100101 1100010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 111111 1110110111 1001010101 1101010101 1001011101 1011110100 110111 1001110101 1101010101 1101110111 1001110101 1111010001 10001011111 1111011101 011101 1111000101 0101010101 1100010100 1111 0111010001 0100110001 1111101111 1101111111 0011011111 1101101111 1111111101 0011011111 1011101001 0111000101 1101010011 1111010001 1011011111 01111101001 11011111001 1001010100 1101000111 1011101111 1010010101 1101110111 0111010011 1111011011 0101000101 010101 111111011 1011110101 1111110101 1011010101 1111000111 0101001101 1111010111 10101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 270
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; we, of, i, and, then, her, so, me, he, they, it, as, one, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, trying, they, that, no, saying are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cry, saw, face, me are repeated).

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