This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Xiv: Batter My Heart that begins with:
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111100111 1111111101 111111100101 1101111111 11111110001 10100111011 101100011101 10100111101 11001101011 11100101100 0110111101 1101010111 01100110101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, me are repeated.
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