This is an analysis of the poem The Pilgrim's Fathers that begins with:
ONE righteous word for Law—the common will;
One living truth of Faith—God regnant still; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddeebbbffccegbbg egbbbbffhhiibbiiibbggjjj Xbffhhbb eekklmm gglffX jjggiii eccenbbffngooga ajjnnggnXjggjjXb jjggllggeejjhhggaamm ajggjaeeccc eebhhbllppeegg oogXXlbbXcllccqgXggbbpp ggggee ccjjj jjbbooriioorjjggssggaabbeejj cclllloobbbaaaqqccjjeppeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,24,8,7,6,7,15,16,20,11,14,23,6,5,28,46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110100 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 01010110101 1111010100 0101010001 1011101101 10111111001 1111111111 11011100111 0101010111 1111010001 1101111111 0101011001 0101010101 0111010101 1011010011 1101011111 11111100001 0101001111 1101010101 1101010001 1101011111 1101110101 1110010111 1101000101 1111010001 0101010111 0101110101 1101110001 0101010011 0101011101 0101000101 0101000101 0101010001 0101010101 1111010111 0101010101 1101111101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010101 1111110001 11011110111 110010101010 0101010101 1111011101 0111101101 0111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1110010100 1101110011 0101010101 1101010101 0101011001 0111011111 1111010011 1101010011 0100111111 1101001101 1101010111 110110111111 11010 10101 1111110101 010101101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101111111 1101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1101000111 0101010101 1101010001 1101010001 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 0101010101 0111000101 0101011011 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 0101010111 0101000101 11001100101 0111111111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101000100 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010011 1101110101 11011101010 1101010101 1101000111 0101010111 01001010011 1101110001 1111010111 0101010101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010011 0101110111 1101010111 001010000101 11111100001 1111010001 1101010111 1111011101 1011011111 0101010111 1111111101 0101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101110101 0101111101 1111010111 1101110101 0101010111 0111011101 0111011101 1101110011 1101110101 0111011101 0111110101 1101000101 1101111111 0101011011 1101001101 0111010001 0101010101 0111000101 0101110111 1101010101 1111111101 11110111010 11010111010 1101000111 0100001101 1101110101 1101111101 11011011010 1101110111 0101001101 1101010101 11001011011 1101010111 0111010111 0101010011 1101010101 1101010010 1101011100 1111111101 0111010100 0101010001 01010100101 0101010101 0101011101 0111010101 1101110001 1101011101 1101000100 1101011101 1101010101 111001010101 1101010001 0101010111 1111111010 11010100001 0110101101 1111011111 0110111101 1111110001 1101001111 1101010101 0101011011 1101001101 1101010111 1011011111 1111111101 0101001100 1110001001 0101010011 0111111101 1111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1111010111 1111011111 1111010111 1101010101 0101010101 0101110100 1111011101 1111010101 1111010111 1111110101 1111010101 0101010011 01001010111 0101001101 01001010101 0111010101 1111110101 11010110001 1111110101 1111110101 0101010111 0111111101 01111001 1111010111 1101011111 0101111101 11010011010 11011111010 0101011010011 1111000111 11010100111 0101011101 0100111111 0111111111 1111010101 1100010001 11110100111 0101010101 1111010010 0101000101 0101001101 1101010101 1100110111 0101000100 1101011101 1101110011 1101001001 1101001100 0111110101 0101011101 11011101011 1101110111 1101011101 1111011101 1111010101 1111001101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 259
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, of, to, and, their, world, where, equal, so, that, thy, it, they, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, they, through, the, a, their, his, to, began, where, that, thy, it, though, when are repeated.
The author used the same words then, here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase here connects the lines.
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- summary of The Pilgrim's Fathers;
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- idea of the verse;
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