This is an analysis of the poem The Keeping Of Faith Rewards that begins with:
Too many confuse the having of faith,
With a purchase made....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBD ABCc dXcebbb AeBAeFAeGAeEF ABCBD AeBAeF ABCb AeGAeEF AeEAeBCDbD AeEAeBCDbD AeAXAeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,13,5,6,4,7,10,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101001 00101 10100001 00101110 110101 1100101001 0010001 111101110 1110101 1 1110101110 111101 001001011 00010 0111011101 10101111101 01001 01 011010 01001 01 011011 01001 01 011010 01001 01 1111100 1100001 1100101001 00101 10100001 00101110 110101 01001 01 011010 01001 01 011011 1100101001 0010001 111101110 1110001 01001 01 011010 01001 01 1111100 1100001 01001 01 11011010 01001 01 1111110 001001001 101 1 001 01001 01 11011010 01001 01 1111110 001001001 101 1 001 01001 01 01001 01001 01 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; those, be, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words too, the 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 faith is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words expressed, faith at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Keeping Of Faith Rewards;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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