This is an analysis of the poem It Shall Be Well that begins with:
IF thou shall be in heart a child,
Forgiving, tender, meek, and mild,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXB aaXb cccXXbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100101 01010111 101101100 110101 01010101 100111111 11111101 010101 11111111 11110111 11110111 110101 01010111 101010101 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tho' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word well at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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