This is an analysis of the poem Should You Wish To Know The Source that begins with:
Should you wish to know the Source,
From which your brothers drew…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaX ddeeXdf befX deXXaXece XeXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,4,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110101 011101 1101 11010101 110101110 110011110 11110101 01110101 111101001 01011101 11010111 11011111 111011 11110111 11010101 100001100 11010101 0111011 11010101 01010111 01010101 10010101 11011111 1111101 010100111101001010111 101110010 11111101 11110101 00110101 11111101 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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