This is an analysis of the poem At The Close that begins with:
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal,
Who straightway sound the call to arms. Thou know'st;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010111 1111010101 01001110101 10010100111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101110101 10101010011 1101110101 1101010101 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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