This is an analysis of the poem I Abide And Abide And Better Abide that begins with:

I abide and abide and better abide,
And after the old proverb, the happy day;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabXacXXcdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110111001 11001100101 1101100111 1101110100 10110111001 100101111 111011110 100101101 1101010 10011110 001000101 10010000101 100101001 101100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, abide, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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