This is an analysis of the poem John Bohun Martin that begins with:
Keeping his word, the promised Roman kept
Enough of worded breath to live till now.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaXcXXXc
- 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: 1001010101 0101010111 1100110101 1101111111 1100111111 0110110111 0101010101 10000100111 0101011111 0110010101 11110111110 1101010001 1101110011 1101000000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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