This is an analysis of the poem Wednesday Before Easter that begins with:
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will -
I will lie still -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC aaddaa eeffgghhii hXjkccccbb eXccXXffbbbb aaiiccllXfhh ffkjcc cckjmm ffffaa XhddcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,10,12,12,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111100 1011 1011110111 1101 1111001101 0011 1101111101 0111 11110011101 0101 1101011101 1111 11010111 11010001 11011101 11011101 11010101 11111101 11011101 11011111 11011101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11110111 10010100 11110101 110100101 110011101 110010101 01110110 11010101 11101101 111111110 01000101 11010101 101101010 010101000 01011101 010011001 11111101 11011101 11011111 110100101 11111101 01011101 111110011 010111001 10111111 10010101 01010111 1000110011 110101000 01001111 11011111 11010101 11011111001 1111 1111011100 1001 1101010101 0101 0011000101 1101 0100011100 1111 1111010001 0101 1001111111 1011 11010100101 1001 1111011011 1111 1010110110100 1101 00111001101 0111 1111110011 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, thy, and, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, their are repeated.
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