This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Joseph Byrnes that begins with:

God gave him gifts: nor gave in vain
The great heart and the master-brain... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaababcccdcd eeefef gggcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 01110101 01010001 0101 010111101 1011 110010101 110010101 11010101 0101 11010101 0101 10011101 110100101 11010101 0101 11110101 01001 11011101 01010101 11011101 0111 11010101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, o are repeated.

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