This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Iii Stand Firm that begins with:

The passion of the public, demanding what
is wrong, never shakes the man of just and firm...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd efgh dXic XcaX ejgj Xfhh dcXg hchc kkcd libk hlfd aXgk hach hddj dcdc gkkd dhdh affX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000100101 01101010111 010001010 10101001101 0101000101010 11001010010 001010011 1110111101 111101100101 011010100100 101010111 1010010101 10111011011 101011011001 111010001 0101010100 11000100011 101101000 01111010 1010111010 1011110100 10100101001 00111001 0101001001 01001110110 1010001111 01110110 0101101110 11101010010 00101101011 101101110 1111110010 01011011010 01001101110 100011101 1010101001 10111100010 111111100101 10011011 1110101010 01010101111 11111100100 111100110 1111111101 10010101010 11101101100 110110101 10000101010 10010111010 11010011010 110011101 0111101110 11010100001 110110100110 1101001110 1101011111 11100111011100 00010111111 0100110110 1000110101 110101010 10110111010 1111101110 110010010 00110010111 01001111001 1011100111 0101111110 1111010111 01011100010 0110101100 1100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, to, of, it, that, three, times are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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