This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Plea that begins with:
Lord, let me stand in the thick of the fight,
Let me bear what I must without whining;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB cdcd aeae fgfgXcbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001001 1111110110 1101001101 1010110110 1101101001 1110110110 1101011101 110011010 1101101001 10110110 1111001001 010110010 1101011011 10110110 1101001011 11010110 1101011001 1110110110 1101101101 1010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, to, when, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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