This is an analysis of the poem Tests that begins with:

ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to
analysis, in the Soul;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100111100110000 0100001 101010100100101011 0100100100101010 1010111110110010101 11001 111110010001001011 11011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines themselves is repeated).

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  • summary of Tests;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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