This is an analysis of the poem On My Guard that begins with:
On my guard and done.
To do as one, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCDDeADAF XeadghXXXgacagXhbX XXciiX Xj XgjaiX bX jjeXXAABCDDhcdgADAFada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,18,6,2,6,2,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 0111 1011110 00101 1100111 11111101 11101 1101010 110110 01010010 0010110110 111001001001 11111 11001010 1 1111010100 111110010101 11111001 10101001 1010 101011101000 11111110001 111 10000111101010 010101100 0101011011100100 01111001000 011100101110 111110100 1 111011111010 101 11001011111 01101111 11110 10 011000 1 010 11 1111011 11101 110101001 1 11 1101 1101 1011 101111 11111 0111 1011110 00101 1100111 11111101 1011 11 111011001 100 1101010 110110 01010010 0010110110 101100001 1 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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