This is an analysis of the poem To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear that begins with:

BE you still, be you still, trembling heart;
Remember the wisdom out of the old days:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110111001 01001010011 11100101101 1011110101 10101101101 10101111111 00101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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