This is an analysis of the poem A Psalm Of Subjection that begins with:
Nurse your 'unconquerable soul,'
But diligently bear in mind ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbacC cbccbcC deddecC fcffccC gbggXbggbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110001 11000101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01011101 1111111 11110111 11010111 11111111 11110101 1000111 10101001 1111111 11011101 01010101 11011101 01000111 01011101 11101101 1111111 01011101 11011101 11111011 110000101 11001111 1011101 1111111 11110101 11110101 01110001 11110111 11010100 100110101 11111111 11000101 1110001 11110101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word must at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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