This is an analysis of the poem Those With Me that begins with:

As on I drive, in my heart joy dwells
Of Sabbath silence with sound of bells....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccddEE ccffcc gghhee cciijj bbkkjj ddhXXX jjaaaa llkaXdmm ddbXddXccjjddEE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111 010100101 011 1 101010 1101001010 011100111 110100101 011101111 1101001101 1101000110 1111001010 111111111 010100111 1111111010 0101011010 110101101 111100111 1111011110 11011001110 0111101011 1101101011 0100111110 1111010110 110100100 110110001 1101001010 1111011010 110111101 110111101 110100111 110101001 1101011110 1101011110 111100111 0100100111 110110101 11011001100 0111001000 1101101100 1101111010 0101001110 110101101 111111101 1111001010 1101101010 111100111 110101101 100 1 101110 010100101 1101001110 0101101010 110010111 110100111 1111101110 1101011010 010110101 110110111 0101111110 1111111010 0101001110 1100001110 110011101 110100101 011101111 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, me, your, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of Those With Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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