This is an analysis of the poem Lend a Hand that begins with:
Lend a hand to one another
In the daily toil of life;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcdcD AeaecfcdXAeaecfcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0010101 11101010 1111001 1011111 00101011 1011101 10111011 10101010 1010111 10101110 0110101 1011011 10101110 1001001 10101011 10101010 0011101 10101110 1110101 1010111 01111110 1011101 10111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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