This is an analysis of the poem What Is It Faithfully That You Do? that begins with:
If you are not that one to awaken,
With affirmations to confirm in meditation done......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc aaa dXXcecXX deXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110010 01010001010101 0111101 1010100111101 1111100110 111000100 1010101100101 01011110001 100100111 00111 0101010100 100100001 1101001001 101101001010 11010011101001 01100010100110 10011101111 101010101010 01101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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