This is an analysis of the poem Be Still, My Soul, Be Still that begins with:
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ddddXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010111110 1111011011101 1101010111010 011111111101 1110011100010 111111111011 1111111111010 101101011111 1111111101010 110111011101 0101110011010 1101110110101 11110111001010 110101111111 1011111111010 110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
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