This is an analysis of the poem Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer that begins with:
Is there a power that can sustain and cheer
The captive chieftain, by a tyrant's doom,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadedfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010110111 0101010101 1001000101 0101111101 1111010111 1101010001 10010010101 0101011101 10010100101 0101110101 1111000101 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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