This is an analysis of the poem Community that begins with:
Good we must love, and must hate ill,
For ill is ill, and good good still ;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddebbX ffebbeXeeabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 11011001 11110100 11110111 11110101 11111101 01111101 11010011 11111111 11100101 11110111 10011111 01000101 00110011 10110101 01011111 11011101 11011111 11111111 111111010 11111111 11111101 11110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ill, good, they are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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