This is an analysis of the poem Heretics All that begins with:

Heretics all, whoever you may be,
In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXX XbbX ccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010110 01011011001 110110101 10011001 110111011 1100101111 0101101101 10000101 1101011100 111101011 101111001 100010 01111111 11110101 010011110 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, my are repeated.

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

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