This is an analysis of the poem If By Chance Your Eye Offend You that begins with:
If by chance your eye offend you,
Pluck it out, lad, and be sound: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111011 1011101 111111011 110010111 101111011 1011101 110111111 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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