This is an analysis of the poem Blaspheme Not Thou Thy Sacred Life, Nor Turn that begins with:
Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn
O'er joys that God hath for a season lent,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcebbbbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011110111 10111110101 0101110101 01001111001 1111000101 11011110011 10001011111 010010111001 1011101111 11001011101 10111101001 1111010101 1111010101 011111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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