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
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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