This is an analysis of the poem Though Some Good Things Of Lower Worth that begins with:
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance. Psalm 16:5.
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababbbb bcbcddd bebeccc dfdfgggXbcbcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001010011 11010101 11011001 010101011 01010101 01010111 01100101 11010111 11010111 01110111 11010101 01110101 11011111 11110111 01110101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11010111 01100111 01110111 11111111 111101101 11010101 11111101 11010101 11111111 11010111 01011101 11110101 01110111 11110111 11010011 11011100 01010011 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, love, my, let, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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