This is an analysis of the poem Faith And Works. A Tale. that begins with:

Good Dan and Jane were man and wife,
And lived a loving kind of life.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccbbddbbcceeffggbbffbbfXbbhhccgfggffcccceeXXeXdidbd bbjbbbXcXkdXkdXlljjccbbffmmjjffkkiiffnnoofX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110111 11010101 111101010 111101100 111101010 111100010 111101010 110001010 11110111 11111111 11110101 11110101 111101111 11000101 010110101 01011111 00110101 100110111 010101001 01010101 11110101 11000101 11111110 11110111 11000101 11000101 010011011 11011101 11001101 11010111 111101110 111101010 11110001 010010101 111100010 11 010 1010 11010101 01010111 110101010 011100110 10010101 110101001 11110111 11110001 11110111 110101010 11110001 01010101 1111010100 0 1 01001 0100 01111111 01010111 1101 10 1101 110110101 100111111 110011111 11010001 111 1 0101 11 0100 1011 11111101 11110011 11110101 10111101 111101101 11000111 01111101 10111111 110111111 11010101 11010101 01010111 11011101 11010001 01111001 01110101 11111101 01011101 11110101 01110111 11110111 111011001 01011111 11010101 11110101 1101111011 11110111 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 596
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, of, he, ', i, faith are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Faith And Works. A Tale.;
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