This is an analysis of the poem To His Watch that begins with:

Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart
Warm beat with cold beat company, shall I... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011101101 1101110011 10011111111 01001010101 0101110111 1111010111 1111111111 01010011111 11001011101 10011001111 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; s is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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