This is an analysis of the poem Be Sure Sin Will Find You Out that begins with:
Do you think, oh shrewd deceiver,
Because your well-laid plan,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacccc bdadXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 011111 101001010 10100101 11001111 1101101 1101010 1001111 111001110 11100101 011101110 0101111 1100111101 00110101 001011101110 0100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word out at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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