This is an analysis of the poem Within And Without: Part V: A Dramatic Poem that begins with:

AND do not fear to hope. Can poet's brain
More than the Father's heart rich good invent?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccd e Xfgha g h iihXhjaXgccgkh a l m daebkbdjchbnaoobpXmcmfbcaf gfXbfXcfqabfjrbrajrfh a pm imcafgd ij i lgj fd a gfmff i pfp leafbarqmca llap a ifbm i Xldfbpbafacqflsbc g cjlhj i mab ak epep gk omom ak jaja gk lhlh a ah i pfl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,5,1,1,14,1,1,1,26,21,1,2,7,2,1,3,2,1,5,1,3,11,4,1,4,1,17,1,5,1,3,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,1,2,1,3,1,6,1,23,2,5,8,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011101 1101011001 1111010101 1101110101 1111111111 0100111111 0100100101 1101110101 0111111101 1011111100 0101001101 1111011101 0101011001 1101111101 01 111 011101 110 00 100 10 110101111010 11010010100 101010 101011001101011110 1101010101101101 01011101010100010 0011001001 100 0 10 00 1 10 1011010101010 11010 100 1011011001 10 1001011111 1100010111 1111111101 11011100101 010010101010 1010010101 1100110101 1101010101 1111010111 11010101010 01110111011 0101100101 1101101111 11110000101 1101110111 1011010101 0111011101 1111111111 0011011110 0101101101 1101001011 1010001001 10010101110 010010001001 1101010110 0101111111 0101000100 0101010101 0101011000 1011010101 1001011111 0111010110 11010100010 0111110111 1111110101 1111010101 1111111001 0111011101 0101110111 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 11011111110 0101111101 1101010101 1011010101 11111100010 100 0111111101 1101011111 0 10 1 100 1 10 101 100 0101111001 100 1101111101 1101011100 1111111101 0111110111 0101 100 1001100 10110111110 1101100101 1111111111 11110 100 10011 111111011 1 1011110101 0101111101 11111111110 1111010100 1111110111 1101110101 1110001001 1111110011 0101010101 0111010101 110101101100 1111110111 1011100111 1101110111 11011011111 100 1111110100 1101000111 11111110110 1011111101 100 1100110001 1111011111 1111010101 01111101010 1011111111 11111100111 1111011101 1111011100 111111001110 11011001111 1111011110 1110110111 0111111101 1101111111 1111011101 1111011101 1101110110 10 11011111110 1101110101 11001110101 00110101010 1111111011 100 100111100100 11101011101 01010101110 100 10 1010101 10101 1010101 10101 10 10 1010111 11101 1111101 11111 100 10 1011101 11111 11100111 00101 10 10 1110101 101010 10101111 101110 100 11011101110 00110111110 100 1101110011 11001011111 0101111101 1101101 11100 101000101011 100101011011010 1010100110101001100 100100011010101 10 110110100000101 100 1010 1110110111 1011111101 1101011111 1111011101 1111111101 0111011101 1101111101 01010101010 1101110111 0101001101 11010100111 1011111111 1101110101 11011011010 0011010011 1101011101 11010011101 1111010111 0111010111 1111011111 1111110011 1101100011 01110010111011 11010101010 0011010101 1011101100 1101110001 1101110101 10 1010111010 01111 10 11 1 10 10010 10 11010110010 100 1100110111 111111011100 100 1111011111 11001101110 110001 1111111111 1111011001 0110110111 0101010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 302
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; her, of, and, for, me, thy, not, i, all, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , that, and, filled are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , me are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word mother at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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