This is an analysis of the poem The Holdfast that begins with:
I threatened to observe the strict decree
Of my deare God with all my power and might: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XbXX XXXb cc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100010101 01110111011 1111110110 1111010011 10111101100 1101011100 1110110011 1110111101 1011011010 1111110110 1101110110 1110111100 1101110011 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, ' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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