This is an analysis of the poem My Pledge that begins with:
This I declare: As I trudge the road
Of pain-filled souls with a heavy load—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaX b XcdcaXaabXddeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111101 011100101 01010101100110101 0101010110100111 110110101110110111 010100100100110101 010110111001011110 1 0101001011100110101 0101111010010111 10001011110011010 1 111110111 011100101 110100101 110110101 111110101 1110000101 10111101 10010111 10010111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Pledge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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