This is an analysis of the poem Who Shall Deliver Me? that begins with:

God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abb acc add aee aXX aeX Xff agg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 110010101 01000101 11011111 11111101 011100101 11110111 11011111 10111101 01111111 11110101 11111101 01110111 11010101 01111100 11010111 01000101 11111111 11110010 1100111001 11110111 11101111 110100101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

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