This is an analysis of the poem For Fasting Days that begins with:
Are you my songs, importunate of praise?
Be still, remember for your comforting...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba baab cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111100001 0101011100 1101111101 0111001101 1011111010001 1011011101 0001111101 0111010101 11111111011 0101011111 11011000011 1110010111 11011111011 11100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; not is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word should is repeated.
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