This is an analysis of the poem Conscience that begins with:

Conscience is instinct bred in the house,
Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddeedfdfgghhggaaeeiibbbccbbjjddeecckkhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101001 1011010101 11010010010 111011 0001 110111010 11110010010 01111101010 110101111110 111101 1101110 111001 1101010 111100 11100 010110 10110 0101110 101010 110001 100100 01010101 111111 11011101 10000000 110011 100101 1101 100101 011111 11011110 0101101 1011111 10010101 0101110 0101010 1011011101 1111111111 1111001 1101010 11101001 1111 11001 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 237
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to, own, good, your are repeated.

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

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

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