This is an analysis of the poem Worn Out that begins with:
You bid me hold my peace
And dry my fruitless tears,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcbc dece Xece XfdXXfaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111101 010111 010110 111111 110101 111111 111111 111111 111101 110111 010101 111101 110111 110101 110111 101111 1101011 101101 111101 110111 1000111 011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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