This is an analysis of the poem Samson Agonistes that begins with:
Samson. A little onward lend thy guiding hand
To these dark steps, a little further on; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdeXfghXaahijgakbhlahaaXhcaaehgjmhenkgjhahoeefhgpqkddaXqdblbghdbgXhhakeapdbobceadejbhioldhaXaqhhmdihdgqorgqeqhqdkoaXangaeaaaaborXdoohgXadhabbeqqalbXhbjhdbaghhckhagrbbhmghmgqqhobdnpXagbjghgagaekaXiqagddeabacbagXgnnqdaahlaccaohXqhcnocbjrcgXgbgaagqk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 249,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101011101 0111010101 1101110111 1111011101 0110110101 100010101011 11010011101 0101010111 10001111101 01010110111 01011111010 0101010101 0101110101 01001010001 1101011101 01000100111 0100010111 1001011001 0101110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111111111 110011101001 1111011101 01110101010 01010111001 10010010100 0101010111 11000101011 1111010101 1001010101 0111110111 01100111111 1011000111 0101010101 001010111001 1001100101 1011110111 11001001010 110101001111 1001010101 0101101001 1111110101 0101010101 1001111101 1110010111 10110101001 01111100011 1001010111 11000101010 1001000011 1100010101 1101010101 0101100100 1001110001 1101001101 1010110101 1111110110 1101110011 1111110000 0101010101 1011011101 0101011011 1101011100 1101111101 1101011101 1101011101 1011001111 10110010101 10110101001 11010010001 1011011111 01000010101 01110101011 1111110101 0101010111 0111011101 01001010011 1111011111 1111010101 1000011001 011101 1101011111 1101111101 1111011101 010101 110101 111001 1001010001 1111010001 1111010001 110001 11010011101 01010110101 110011100010 1111011101 11111011001 1111011101 1001010101 0101110101 11011111000 111100101 101101 1100011100 0101010111 11010101 01010001 100100 010101 1111101111 0101011001 0111001101 11010101001 1101000111 100011001 11110011 1101011101 111111010001 010110 1111010 11011010 010101101 1111 111101011001 1010101 1010010101 110111011101 110101010101 11010101010 110001 110100100100 01011101010 1001011101 10001 11011101 1100000101 0101111111 100111011000 10010111001 11011001 1100111010001 10110010101 0100110101 01010010100101 0101010001 111111110101 0101011101 100111010101 110001011101 11011101110 111110 110111 100110 010001 1101110100 01001011 110101101101 010101 011000101 110101 001010101 110101 1111001 11001101 11110101 01010101 11100101010 100101 0101010101110 1111010101 110101 10101010 1011110101 110101 10100101010 11101011101 0110010111 11111111001 0101010101 1111110101 010110101 01011011010 1011010111 10111111001 01000101 11110101 11101011111 10110100111 1101011111 1011000001 11010101001 1110010111 1001111111 1101010111 11110111011 1011110101 1111111101 11010101100 1101001001 10001110101 1101010101 0001010111 11111100101 01001111111 1101101011 0101011101 0101010111 0001011111 1101011101 11101010101 1111110001 1101011111 0111110010 1101011101 11011111110 11111001010 1011110111 11011101110 10111110111 1111011101 01001101111 1111010111 0100011111 0101110101 1101100100 0101110101 1101011101 1111011111 1001010010 1101010101 1101001101 1011110001 10010011110 1110111111 11000101110 11110100010 10101010001 0101110100 11010111110 110110101 11111111101 1101001101 1101111111 1001011100 01011111010 010010110101 1101000111 0101111101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 10362
- Average number of words per stanza: 1846
- Amount of lines: 249
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, in, my, of, dark, or, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, light are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases ease, life connect the lines.
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