This is an analysis of the poem If Truth In Hearts That Perish that begins with:
If truth in hearts that perish
Could move the powers on high, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc bdXd XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 1101011 1101111 111101 1101010 010111 0111010 111101 0111110 010001 1111110 010101 1111010 001101 1001110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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