This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Goodness That Comes that begins with:
When I feel a good deed is done,
I feel a goodness that comes over me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB CcB CCB XB CCB ABCBXCCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,2,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 1101011101 11111111011 1101011101 1101011 01011 1001011101 1101011 1101011 1001011101 1101000101 1001011101 1001011 1001011 1001011101 11100101 1101011101 11111111011 1101011101 1101011 1101011 10010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, feel, goodness, that, comes, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 comes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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