This is an analysis of the poem The Canonization that begins with:
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccaa addaeeeaa affabbbaa accagggaa ahhagggaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 11110111 1111110101 0111110101 11011101 01010101 10111011 10111001 110111 0101110111 11011111 1111110101 10110100101 10011111 11100101 1011110111 01011101 111111 11110111111 10110101 11101111111 11011110101 01010111 111110110 1011011101 11110111 0100101 1111001111 10011111 1100000111 1011010011 11010101 11011101 0101011101 11111101 110111 110111011001 11010100 1011111101 1001111111 00010011 11110111 1101010101 10111001 01001100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; or, your, my, his, you, we, and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, call are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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