This is an analysis of the poem Hope that begins with:
Faith may break on reason,
Faith may prove a treason... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddcb ccXefffe bbcaggga ccbhffXh iicjaaXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 111010 01101 1010111 1111110 1111110 1101011 1110101 0101011 0101011 101010 10101 1101110 111110 1111110 0011111 1101000 1101000 111011 1010001 111010 111010 111010 101101 111010 1101110 1101010 0011101 1110010 1101010 01010101 010101 1110011 101011 1011101 10111 11010101 01010101 101010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hope, for, it, what, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words faith, some, a, where, hope, something are repeated.
The author used the same word hope 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 us, it, life, one are repeated).
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