This is an analysis of the poem What Though I Cannot Break My Chain that begins with:
What though I cannot break my chain
Or e’er throw off my load,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dadX efefXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 111111 01010001 110001 11101101 110100 01010111 110101 10011111 1101010 11110101 111111 11011101 111111 11010011 111111 11100101 1101001 11010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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