This is an analysis of the poem Against Scoffing And Calling Names that begins with:
Our tongues were made to bless the Lord,
And not speak ill of men:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fgfX hihi gjgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111101 11010101 111101 111101010 000111 110100110 110101 11110101 011111 11011101 011101 11001101 111001 11010101 10111110 11011101 111101 11010101 011111 11110011 0101011 11111111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; go, and are repeated.
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