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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