This is an analysis of the poem To The Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, On Reading His Sermons On Daily Devotion, In Which That Duty Is Recommended And Assisted that begins with:
TO cultivate in ev'ry noble mind
Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcbbddeeffaaaaaaeeggXchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 01001110001 1111010101 1101011101 11110101010 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1011011001 11001010101 10110100101 1111010101 01001111101 0111010101 1001010101 11010011111 11010110101 1111010101 0100100101 01010110101 11010011101 0101010111 11010101010 11011101011 11001000101 01010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1204
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thus is repeated.
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