This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders that begins with:
THOU, whose diviner soul hath caused thee now
To put thy hand unto the holy plough, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffeeggffhhiiaaffjjjjjjkkjjkbeeaallkXffhXeejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110011111 0111100101 1011000100 1101001100 1111011011 0101010111 1111001111 1001011101 1101101111 110111111001 11110010111 0101101111 11010100101 100101111 111111001 1101010111 11011101010 01111011010 1111100101 1111010101 1111011111 1111000101 1111110111 1101000101 10110101010 11010111010 1111111101 1101110000 1011010001 0101001100 0111110111 11010101 1111110111 110110101 1101110101 1111110101 1100110100 0100011100 0101011001 11110001101 10110010111 1100011111 1101010101 1101010101 01101000111 0111110101 1111101101 110101100101 11110111000 01111101100 11010101111 10111011111 1101101101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2428
- Average number of words per stanza: 429
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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