This is an analysis of the poem True Diffidence that begins with:
My boy, you may take it from me,
That of all the afflictions accurst... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcadccd deffedbggbXcddddcaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 101001010 010110 110110 01001001 11011010 01001001 1110110 111110 11111001 11101011 101101001 011010 111110 11101101 101001001 11010001 1110111 110111 01000101 101001011 11011011 010110 010110 11001011 111111111 11101011 011010 111010 01001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sir is repeated).
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