This is an analysis of the poem Hope And Despair that begins with:
Said God, 'You sisters, ere ye go
Down among men, my work to do,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXbbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 10111101 10110101 11111110 101010101 1101101 110101 110101 11110111 01000101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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