This is an analysis of the poem The Petition For An Absolute Retreat that begins with:
Give me, O indulgent Fate!
Give me yet before I die... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccX ddeeffggccaacc hhaaXaefcchhiibbggXjkkcccCbb hjhhffcchhlleebbiibbeeaaffcchhaXXcbb hhffiimmaammmmaacC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,28,36,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110111 01110101 11111111 1011101 1110111 1010100 1010101 11010001 1111101 10100011 1110101 11010111 11011100111 0010001 0110101 01011101 0110101 11010111 1011101 0110111 10010111 01010111 01010101 11000101 1010111 1011101 0011001 11011001 11010101 11110001 10011111 1011101 10111001 1100101 1101001 1010011 1011101 11010101 11101010 10101010 1000101 1011101 11010101 1011001 10100011 1110111 1110100 1100101 1110101 10101110 1110101 11010101 101001101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1111101 00100111 1010111 0010101 1001101 1010101 1111111 1111111 0010111 1110111 1111101 0110101 1010001 1010100 1011101 1100101 11110101 1010101 1010001 1010101 10100101 11000111 01110101 0100110 1001010 11100101 1110101 1010101 1111101 11010101 0110101 11001001 10101001 11010111 01010101 1100101 111001001 1010101 1111101 01100101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1111101 1111101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words give, that, nor, all, clothe, for are repeated.
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