This is an analysis of the poem Introduction To A Pilgrim's Progress that begins with:
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the gaol), and I laid me down in that place to sleep:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XX XX XX XX X XX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,1,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101000011101010111010111111011011111110111101110110110001010010011010011011001011111110011101111111110 101100011101111101011110110 11 1011111011111100011101111111011110001011101100 1101 101110101001110011111110011000 11 1000110110111110001011010001011010011110101011101011010100101011101101101110 1011 11101010001111000100110101110 101110101011111010100100010111011110 11 001111111010111111101110110100111110101011010011001111010011101110101001011100111010100110111110110111000101110110101111001101100010100100110101111011111111110001010010111111100110101110100001000100101111101111110011101111110010110001110100111110111100101111101101111000110110001010110011111010111111101101011001101010000111010010110101010010111101001011101011111011110111001010010100100111100110010011001110110000001011010110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 206 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 38
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, as, his, in, place, all, he, by, to, they, that, would, be, sometimes, of, them, wife, this, not, also, my, but, for, him, children, wherefore, began, with, said, some are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).
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