This is an analysis of the poem Controlling the Tongue - that begins with:
My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend.
A wicked tongue is worse than a fiend; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeeXXffXggXXXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111111 010101101 110011101 111001010 10101111 111110111 11111111 11001011101 111011000 0111011000 11111101 111111111 010101011 011010111 000111111 111011101 110101010100 111010101 10101111111 01011101 1110010110 11011001100 110111111 011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1000
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; my, son, muckle are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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