This is an analysis of the poem Cassandra Southwick that begins with:
To the God of all sure mercies let my blessing rise today,
From the scoffer and the cruel He hath plucked the spoil away;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcX aaaa ddee ccee ffgg hhii jjee eeee jjcc kklX bbii llff ffff llff ffaa mmff bblX mmaa eeee iimm mmmX eeeX eenn eeiX eeiX aaaa eeaX XbeX jjmm llfX aajj aaaa aaee ccee nnooXeekk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001011101110101 001010101110101 1111010010101 1101010110101 1111011111101 11011111101101 00101010110111 110100100010101 010111010101011 110111000111001 1101110111100 01110100010001 111110011111010 010101011110110 1011010110111 101010101010001 101000111010101 10110010110011 1111100010101 1111010111101 1001010110111 1011010100101 1001110010101 11001100101101 1111010101011 1101110010111 10101110111111 1101011110101 11101101011111110 1110101011101110 1110010011111 11110010010101 1101010010101 0111010110101 0101010110111 11010110111101 1100010111101 1101110110111 10111101001001 01001100110011 110101110101 100101001010001 1011010010101 0101010011101 1101010111101 11110101010101 11010101110101 01110001110111 1101110011001 11010101010101 111010100110101 1010110010001 101110100011111 101010101011101 110111011010011 11101010010101 1101110010111 10010111011101 01110101110001 11011101110101 11010111111101 11010101101111 1101011111111 101001110010111 1111111110111 11110111100111 1101110100111 01011101010101 101011101010101 101110111100111 1110101011100101 11010101100101 11111111011101 11010101110101 01011101011111 1011101111101 11010100111111 1111110010111 1101010010111 11110101010001 110000101010101 01110010011111 01111011010101 1011010010101 1111011110001 1100010110001 11011110010101 00111110110101 110010101100101 101011001010101 110110111110111 0101010010101 11111111010101 1101010010111 1011010110101 1101010110100 1001110010101 1011010010101 10101010110101 1110101011100111 11101010110111 1111010111101 111011111111111 1111011110111 011100110100111 11000111110001 11010101111101 11010101010001 111010101010101 0111011010001 101011111110011 1111111110110 1101010111101 11010101010101 101001001001 111011100111011 11110101010111 101010101010111 10110101110101 110111011100001 11000101010001 11010101110101 11111111010101 110011011011100 11011111110101 10111101111111 11110100010001 10100110110101 111100101110111 010010111011001 010011111111111 11011101010001 11000101011100 10010101110101 110101110010101 11010001110101 11111000110111 1001110110101 11110101100101 1001010010101 11111101110101 01110111010101 10010100001010 100111010101010 11010101010101 11010101010101 1111010110101 1101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 148
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, my, and, thee, for, of, their, to, on, thou, her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words last, and, a, woe are repeated.
The author used the same words 'and, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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