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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