This is an analysis of the poem A Servant To Servants that begins with:

I didn't make you know how glad I was
To have you come and camp here on our land....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbcefdgehbihfGbXgajkkgfibglmGffffednaneflhfldflhljcfdedfcldekkldanjelfXdamecielofffXnncfenbklnXabdfchXnXpipobXahbglXaabaffngagifnlhidcdfnaigahXfcbhfadlaXfohcdbfobfkcafmffdbXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 177,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111111 0111111111 1101101111 1101111111 0010010101 11110101 1101110101 1111111101 11111101110 01011111110 0111110111 10111101101 1101011101 1101111101 1110110111 1101111110 11001101010 1111110111 001000111110 10110111010 11111101110 10110101 0011011101 1111110101 1001110110110 011111111010 01111101010 01010110101 011111011110 1011000101 1011100101 11001101010 1100101100 1011101100 0010111001 1111110101 11011011101 1111111111 01010001101 1111010100 01001101110 0111100101 1100110111 1111101111 1110110101 0101111011 0100101100 10010101011 0111111101 0101110101 11010100010 11011011111 1011110111 1111111101 11110111010 1101110111 1101011011 1111111111 1011111001 0111110111 0101110100 01010111111 11011100101 1101011101 1111001101 0101010101 11111111111 1111000100 1011010101 1111110111 1001010101 0111111101 0110110111 11010011000 1110011101 11110110110 1001010011 111110111 1111011111 1011000111 1011010111 1111111101 1100110111 0101010101 0101001011 0101111111 111100100100 11010101111 1110111011 1001111001 0101011100 11011100011 1101010010010 1011111101 1011110101 10111011110 10110100010 111100110010 111010010101 1110001110 0101010111 01010100011 1111001101 1101011111 1111010101 0101001101 0100010001 1011011101 1101010111 1011110111 11111111010 01111101010 0101010101 11010101001 11000101010 0101010101 1011101100 110101001011 11101100001 1011011100 01110110110 11011111010 0011011001 1001111001 1111111101 10110101101 01011101010 1010101100 11110010100 11011111110 1010011111 0101110101 10111100010 11010111111 1101110101 01110111011 11111011111 01011111011 1101010100 11011111011 1011010101 1001010001 01011101010 11010011001 01111111110 101111101010 11101001010 1101110101 1111011101 1101010111 1111111111 1110010111 1111011111 11011110010 1110011101 1101010111 0111010111 1111101101 11110101010 1011011101 1111011111 1101111101 10101111010 1011111101 1010001101 11011001110 1111101011 01010110101 0101111011 1101010111 1101110101 10100011001 1101011111 11001011111 0111010101 1111001101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7709
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1529
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, you, to, and, whiter, it, that, his, he, they, them, bow, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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