This is an analysis of the poem Brunton Stephens that begins with:

The gentle heart that hated wrong,
The courage that all ills withstood,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbBccccbB dedecc bXbXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 01011101 01010101 11100101 11110101 01010001 010111101 01110100 01011101 01010011 11011101 01010001 11000111 11010101 10110100 11010101 11010101 11010011 11011111 11111100 11011011 01110100 01010101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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