This is an analysis of the poem To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing that begins with:
Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bbbb dbdb ebeb fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110000 11111101 010101 01110111 011111 10011111 111101 11111001 010101 11010101 111111 11011101 111101 11011101 010111 11011101 101101 11111101 1010111 11111111 010101 110101001 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, heart, as, weep, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word bid at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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