This is an analysis of the poem Forsaking All Others Part 5 that begins with:

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TRAINED nurses, trained nurses everywhere­... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a babaXcaccbcb X dccX efgf eXfh ifjf X klkl blbl X aaaa mbXm icci fnnf aooX a hmhmhjhX hlhlmmmmjlal a gFggF gFggF gFggF hFhhF X eacanpepfIiieaga fgegecgcmmfXjifI X fafX fafa Xqmq amdX cacX lili fcfX liXX lbli rchX X acscga mqmqtrtruluXg qmqmsrsrororpf a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,12,1,5,5,5,5,1,16,16,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,6,13,14,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110110101 1101111011 00100101 1011010001 10111111 11011101 100101001 100101101 11101001 110100101 11100101 110110101 1 011010011 001010001 11101010 10101110 10001010 110101 1111111 01101001 101110 101111 111111010 101001 1110010 0101001 01110010 1111001 1 1001110101 100101100010 11110101001 110100101110 1001111101 11110101010 01000010101 11110100010 1 1111011001 10101111 1110111100 0010100101 10101111 101101101 101111011 1011011001 1111100101 10101101 111101111 1001001111 1110101111 110110101 100100100 0100101101 111100101 11011111 111110101 100111101 1 1011 10110 1101 10010 0001 10110 1101 10110 1101 10110 1001 11110 1111 10010 1011 01010 01100 11010 111111 11110 1 111100101 1001001 10101111 011011001 111111 1111001010 1001001 101001010 11100101010 111111 111100101 1001001 11011101 11010111 111111 111100111 1001001 1011111001 10110110111 111111 1 101010 110101 1101010 010101 11010 11101 0101010 10001 10011 010101 1010110 1111 10010 10111 0101010 11101 00111 10101 1111110 01101 110010 11011 010110 0111 101010 1011 1111110 111111 110110 111111 1011011 010101 1 11100010111 10101100101 1101010101101 11100011101 100100101101 1111111101 0101001111 111110111011 110011100101 1011110101 110100101100 101100100101 1111110101 1011110111 0100011011101 11111100101 1011110100111 100111111001 110000100111 11111101011 1101110110 10100101100 110011101010 001111111111 111111111001 011010101101 11101010001 10010101101 1111001110 11011110101 001011100010 10110011111 11111101110 10111110111 1101111110 01111110101 10010 1001 10010 010001 1 11 11110101 1111111111 1100010011 110101010110 110100001 1111110011 0111110011 1111011101 1101101111 11110001111 0111010101 0101010111 0100010100 1101111100 11110111001 01101110011 01110101001 1100 110001 11010101010 1101011111 01011001010 10010001010 1101010101 10011011110 1011010101 0011101101 1001010001 1101111001 1001110101 1111011011 111101 1011 0011001111 1011000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; trained, nurses, 'you, ', angels, and, not, her, he, in, to, must, of, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words trained, dawn, what, such, 'i, they, was, angels, of are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same words said, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases tired, read connect the lines.

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