This is an analysis of the poem Set New Compassions that begins with:
Honor every joy that comes into your life.
Honor all the people and see everyone as equal....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXab CDXeeXCDeba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101001110011 10101011101110 1011010111011 0001001 1010001001001 11 111 10101001101 0001010101 1101001101 11 111 1111011101 0111101111 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; honor, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word honor is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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