This is an analysis of the poem His Apologies that begins with:
Master, this is Thy Servant. He is rising eight weeks old.
He is mainly Head and Tummy. His legs are uncontrolled.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXb ccXX dddd dXee bbbb aaff gggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001101010111 10101110011101 11101001001101111 1110011010 10 1001 10010101101001 1110011001101011 1000110100110101101 101011011101001 1001110011111 111110110011101001 110101011101001101 10010110011100111 100111011101101 11010110011000110 1100101001111101011 1110110100111111101 1001110110101 1011100111101001 111010111110101 100111011111001 10101101011111 11011010110111 1111001001111101 1111101111011111 1111110111101 1011001111100111 0111011010111101 11101101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, he, and, servant, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word master is repeated.
The author used the same word master at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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