This is an analysis of the poem Dedication To Joseph Mazzini that begins with:

Take, since you bade it should bear,
These, of the seed of your sowing,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc dXdddd efaefa bghbgh Xfihfi bgjbgjXhgehge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 10010110 1011011 1110111 101011110 111101 111110001 110011100 110110001 11011000 100110010 11111101 000101001 1011010010 001001001 101101001 10110010 1001101 11101001 010110010 1011111 1111101 11111110 1111001 01110101 11101010 11011001 101011001 1011010010 101001101 00101111 1010011010 1101011 001001111 1110011010 111001001 1101111 11011110 111111111 111011 10111010 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, and, be, that, which, till are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, nor, but, yea are repeated.

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