This is an analysis of the poem Duty Surviving Self-Love that begins with:
Unchanged within, to see all changed without,
Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbaacXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011101 0011110111 1111010111 1101110101 1101111111 0101100111 11001010101 1111111111 1001010101 01110010101 1111001101 1111110101 1011111101 0101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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