This is an analysis of the poem To Life's Pilgrim that begins with:
FLY from the press, and dwell with soothfastness;
Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX a aXX Xa Xaa X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,3,2,3,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110100 0110101001 1111110100 1111101101 1011111001 1111110111 1111010111 1101010100 01000011001 1011101100 1101111011 1111110101 1011111111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, thee, of are repeated.
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