This is an analysis of the poem The Testament Of John Lydgate that begins with:
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Beholde, o man! lyft up thyn eye and see... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXXcX XXXXaXbX XaXXXXXX dXdXXeXX XXXXXXXX XXXXcXXX XXXXXeXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 1101111110 0101111100 10110011101 10001111110 101100111110 1111010001 1101100100 11110111100 1110111000 1110011110 111000111000 1011010001 10011111110 0111101010 1101100100 0111111110 0111110101 11111010111 110100100010 1101011110 0110010010 1111110010 1110110100 111011101 01111110110 11010110001 1111101110 1111100111 11110100101 1101111001 11110100100 1011001101 111101100 11111011 10110010100 10110010100 001001101110 01100010110 1111110100 1111001101 0100101111101 1011110001 11111001110 11110010101 100110011 1100011011 1111110100 1110011100 1111100101 1111011100 1111111001 11010010101 11010101101 1111110110 10110110100 01 010100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; beholde, that, my, behold, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , beholde, geyn, behold are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sacryfice at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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