This is an analysis of the poem Fear Not, Dear Friend, But Freely Live Your Days that begins with:

FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days
Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccbbdebed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110111 1101110111 0101110001 1011111101 1011010111 1111110111 0101010011 1111110111 1101111101 1111010101 1011010111 1111110011 1100010101 1111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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