This is an analysis of the poem To His Conscience that begins with:
Can I not sin, but thou wilt be
My private protonotary?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbaXccddeeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 11010000 11111011 01110100 11011101 1100010 11011111 1101100 11011111 11110100 11110101 01111101 100111001 10111111 00101111 11011101 01010011 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 and is repeated.
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