This is an analysis of the poem From This Hour The Pledge Is Given that begins with:
From this hour the pledge is given,
From this hour my soul is thine: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabababa XXXXcdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001010 00101101 11001010 1111101 10111111 111101 10111111 111101 1100010111 0010111 10111100 1011101 11111110 11111110 10111010 110111 11101110 1101101 10111110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; from, and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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