This is an analysis of the poem The Recommendation that begins with:
These houres, and that which hovers o’re my End,
Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb ccXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011110111 0011111101 1101011111 01101011011 11110111001 0101011111 1001011101 11011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, life, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).
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