This is an analysis of the poem Where A Crowd Of Pilgrims Toil that begins with:

The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.
Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toil... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcbdedebfXfeagaXdddehiheiXijkikjcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111011 11010101 110101 110101111 111101 11010101 110101 110101111 110111 11010101 110111 11111101 110111 11001001 111101 01010111 110111 111101100 111101 111101111 111111 0101010101 110101 111010101 111101 11011101 110111 110011111 010101 110110101 010001 11110101 111101 11110101 010111 11110111 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; their, our, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, and, our, we are repeated.

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