This is an analysis of the poem Be Not Dismayed that begins with:
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when death
Sets its white seal upon some worshipped face.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdeefggffggfhihijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1011011101 1101010101 1101011111 1111011111 1101001101 1111110101 1011111101 1101111001 0111110101 1001000101 10010111001 1100010111 1001100111 1111011111 1111011101 0101010111 0100110001 1111010111 0111010101 1101111101 1110110001 1101010101 1101011101 1011011001 0001000111 1110011111 1011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1228
- Average number of words per stanza: 218
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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