This is an analysis of the poem Kept Faith Is Something Else that begins with:
Better it is to have than not,
When it is tested....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcD DdcaD DdXdDaX DbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000111 10010 10100001100 110101 110101 101010011 111001 0011001 110101 110101 1001101001 101011101 000100010101 110101 1001011010 1010100111 110101 1101001 111101 00111001 001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; it, faith, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word kept is repeated.
The author used the same word kept 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 else is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word else at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Kept Faith Is Something Else;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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