This is an analysis of Little Messages Of Joy And Hope by Madison Julius Cawein.

Take Heart
Take heart again. Joy may be lost awhile.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc X X ddeded X f dadadd X g dgdgddFafafffF d X ehhe d i jijkgkgk X gXbddbkffk
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,1,6,1,1,6,1,1,14,1,1,4,1,1,8,1,10,
  • Metre: 11 1101110101 0011101 1101011101 100111 1 100 1111110111 0111110101 0111010101 1101110101 11110011001 1101010101 1 10 101111 100101 111101 100101 110111 1011 1 01 011101 1101 111101 11111 101101 0101 010111 1101 010101 0111 111101 111111 110101 010111 1 11 1111 11011 10011 11011111 1 11 1001001 1101 100111 1110 110111 1111 111111 1101 1 101 11011110111 0101000001 1101010111 01011111111 1111001111 1011110111 11110011111 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 20
  • Lines: 63

Anaphora

take, fortune, be, i

Anadiplosis

fortune