This is an analysis of the poem The Gift Of Perseverance that begins with:
ONCE, as I brooded o'er my guilty state,
A fever seized me, duties to devise, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbXbbXccX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110101101 0101110001 01110001101 1101110101 1111010011 1101111100 01110111001 11111011100 111111101001 1101011101 0111111101 1101110111 11010100101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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