This is an analysis of the poem Joseph Warren, M. D. that begins with:
TRAINED in the holy art whose lifted shield
Wards off the darts a never-slumbering foe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001011101 11010101001 1111110101 0101010101 01010101001 01001110111 1001010101 0100010101 0101010101 0101010101 1001110101 10010010101 1101010101 11010000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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