This is an analysis of the poem Dum Spiro Spero that begins with:
Come, Lord, and lift the fallen bird
Abandoned on the ground;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cd XX ef gh X ah di ea X bj cX g bi gc jf d iX XX bX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101 01011101 010101 010101 110101 010101 110101 10111 1010001 1011010 11110 101111 0100111 111100 0101101 1000111 110101 110101 1000101 1010111 11011100 101101 00111011 11101001 0110101 11010 0110110 1111010 110111 11011 111001 01110101 11010 100110101 110101 1010110111 111111 10001011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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