This is an analysis of the poem Theory And Practice that begins with:
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,
Warning the sinners from the broad highway... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabXcacX ccddddaaeeffgg hhddiiXdbX eejjffklklaaccdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,10,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 1001000111 1101110101 1111010101 00101010111 0111011110 11101101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110011 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 11000011101 1001111111 0101000101 0111010101 0111011101 0101011101 1101011001 1111010101 0001010011 1111011101 0101010101 101101000101 1111011101 1101111101 1111010111 1100011101 1111001101 111010101 1011111101 11010101000 01010110101 111010111 1101010111 1111110101 1100011101 11001010101 1101110111 1111111111 1111110111 110111111 10111111001 0101110101 0001011101 1101010011 1111111101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, his, of, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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