This is an analysis of the poem O' God ! that begins with:

O' God !
I wander all day and pine through time,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcddeefXfaXffddbXfcggcchh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 110111111 11110011 0100110101 0101010011 1101101101 1111100101 01011111 11011111 11101 1110110111 1010101 010101 10101 101101 011101 10110111 0101111 0101 11111101 11 1111011101 10111011 111010101 010100010001 10100101111 111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 874
  • Average number of words per stanza: 174
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of O' God !;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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