This is an analysis of the poem Duty that begins with:
If 'Yea' and 'Nay' were words enough for Him,
Who taught beyond the lessons of all teaching, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 11010100110 0111110110 11010011010 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 0111011101 1101110101 10001110111 1101010101 1101001101 1101011101 11110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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- summary of Duty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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