This is an analysis of the poem The Best Medicine Totake that begins with:
I could have not have said it yesterday,
With a consenting to contentment meant......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCcdbedXfg abhfiijkjj fidkdlcdbd hfXbf ABCldbgclfXfefdcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,5,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 0001000101 1011110100 1110111110 01101100010 1011111010001 1111 11000101110010 10011010100101 111111 100010111010100 111110101 10101111011 10001111110111 111101000010101 10111110101101 111111001001 111001011101010 111110101010 11001111001010 0010100011110011010 110101010111 110101010111101 1110100110010 11011101010100 101010100010101 101010111011010 01001011111001101 10100101010010011 01111000 1111011001111101 1110110001 01101010 01000011110101 1100100010101 0101110111111 1111110101 0001000101 1011110100 110 0010001010 01110110 101101100110100 101101001001010 010010 011101110101100 01100100 11010100110001 1101010001 1 011001001 100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, that, to, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word faith is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fear connects the lines.
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