This is an analysis of the poem A Last Appeal that begins with:
KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers,
Hear how we cry to you, brothers of ours!-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccDBCX eeffXXddDBCX gghhiiffDBCX ggddggggDBCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010110 1111011001 1001011011 1101111011 1011011011 1011111011 1001011011 1001101111 111111 1011 111100 1111 1101011011 1011011111 1111011001 11111001001 111001011110 001001011101 001001011011 101011011001 111111 1011 111100 1111 1011001101 1111011111 1111111011 1101111110 11101011001 011011011011 11111001011 11101110001 111111 1011 111100 1111 1111011011 1101011001 1101001011 1001011101 1001111111 101111011101 11011111101 001001101001 111111 1011 111100 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; our, in, to, be, us, we, lest, his, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words give, lest, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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