This is an analysis of the poem The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage that begins with:

Give me my scallop shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdbdbeeffgghhiiiiaaXeefijggeeggkkjjeejjllXXeeiibbkkaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010 11010101 110101010 1100010 11010111 11111100 11011010 110101010 11110110 10001010 1001010 10101010 1111 0101 1110101 1100101 11000101 11000111 11010101 11010111 11111101 111000111 1101 0111 110111010 1011 1101 111101010 11110111 11010100 10101110 100101110 100101001 110101110 010101001 11010101 11010001 11010111 110111110 111001010 11110101 11110111 10111010 01111010 1111101 11011111 011101010 100101100 1100101011 1001101 10010101 011110111 10111111 11010111 1101111111 1111110101 1111010101 0111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1953
  • Average number of words per stanza: 353
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.

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