This is an analysis of the poem 1914 Ii: Safety that begins with:

Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest
He who has found our hid security, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcbdbdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110001011 1111110100 01001100111 1111101111 11110011010 0111010111 01111101110 11110100101 111011011110 1110101011110 11110110110 10010111010 1111011111 1011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and is repeated.

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

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