This is an analysis of the poem Semper Fidelis that begins with:
THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit
With this book upon my lap here, come and overshadow it? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XaXX ccdd eeff ggXXXaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111001011111 001011111110100 101010101010101 111111100010101 110110101110111 101110101111101 111110100111010 110110110111111 111101101010111 001010101001101 11111001100101001 111011101010101 0110101001111101 101110101101101 111110101010111 1111100111111101 111011101111111 111011110010101 101011111111111 101010101111111 1101110101011101 101011101111111 111110101101101 101111101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, you, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, by are repeated.
The author used the same word think at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Semper Fidelis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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