This is an analysis of the poem The Heart And Service that begins with:

The heart and service to you proffer'd
With right good will full honestly,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcb cbcb abab cbcb dbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100110 01001100 010110010 11001100 11000101 10010100 01011001 01111100 00010101 0111110 11000010 11010100 11100111 11010100 11111111 11100010 11101111 101011110 11111111 00110100 111111010 00110100 111101110 011101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; it, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word pain at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Heart And Service;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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