This is an analysis of the poem Grace that begins with:
My stock lies dead and no increase
Doth my dull husbandry improve: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB abaB cbcB cbcB dbdB ebeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110001 11110011 1001 01011101 11110101 11110111 1001 01110101 11010111 01111101 1001 10110101 11111101 11111111 1001 10110011 10010101 11010101 1001 11111101 10011111 01111111 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; dew is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word above at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Grace;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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