This is an analysis of the poem A Testimony that begins with:
I said of laughter: it is vain.
Of mirth I said: what profits it?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaa caacdd bccXee faafaa fggfbb bhhbgg icciaa ffffhh gbbgcX jccjkk fddfll mffmll ennecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 01111100 11110111 01111101 111101001 01000101 11001111 1000101 01101001 01011101 11101101 01110111 11011101 11111111 10111101 111101110 11111111 011001001 11110101 10100101 11011101 01101101 11010101 10010101 11110011 11000100 01111011 01110101 100110101 10011111 01010011 11011111 010101001 11010111 11010001 01000100 11001011 11011101 11011101 11110101 11111111 11011101 11100101 01011101 01011111 11111101 11011101 11111011 11110001 11011111 11101011 11110111 10011111 11011100 11110111 11110101 11011101 11010111 11010111 11011111 01010011 11011111 11011101 1011110 11011111 01011011 11010101 10111101 11010011 11000100 01110111 10000101 01100100 11010111 11110001 110111000 11010111 10111100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, there, as, we, our, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, he, our are repeated.
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