This is an analysis of the poem A Lost Soul that begins with:
A lost soul would find it difficult,
Without faith to use against those......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdda cXecbb ebXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110100 01101011 111110101 110010010010 010010 01001010110 01101101001 010001000100101 0111000011101 00111001010 101110 10100101 01101 100011 110010 00010001 101011101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines evil is repeated).
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