This is an analysis of the poem Stay Devoted that begins with:
I don't feel it my right,
To undermine your achievements....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXbXbccaXCd DADE DCACDCEC DECXDEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 01011010 000101011 0111011010110 111101001010 101010111111 0110110100101 00100101111 10111101 0111001001 11111101010 010 110101 00010101010 1010 1010110 1010 1010010 1010 110101 1010110 10101 1010 110101 1010010 10101 1010 1010010 11 1010 1010010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, stay, devoted are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word stay is repeated.
The author used the same word stay 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 devoted is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Stay Devoted;
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