This is an analysis of the poem The Litany Of Nations that begins with:
CHORUS
If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbdeedfeefgeegeggXcXgchffhbeebhiihbeeb a jcjckXkgkhkH j XkgkXkXkXagA f aeXXlgXgahaH a hbhbbXbgeaeA X gXgllflfhhhH g ffXfgggggagA j egegememfhfH g fbfbgggggagA a hhhhnlnlfgfgfefeXlXlkgkgflflhohomgmgbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,40,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,40,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 001011111111 11101011101 10100111111 111010101011 10111010011 101001111010 101011100110 111111101101 1111001101010 10100110101 10100110101 1110011100110 10101110101 101111111110 101100101010 101110100101 101010101010 10111110111 10111111111 101010111110 101110011111 10101010100 1110101001010 111001011111 1010110101110 011011100111 11101101111 1110111001110 11101110111 101111111110 101010101010 10111110101 101111101110 10101110101 10101010101 101011101010 10101010101 101011100010 101000110110 11101011101 1 111111100110 0101 1010111010010 0111 101011111110 11000 101011101000 0101 111111101011 11110 111111101111 111110 100 111110101100 1111 111110111110 0101 1111111110100 1111 101110110100 1111 111111110100 11011 111100101010 111011 1 111111101010 1101 1111111000100 1000 11111110101 0111 110010111100 0101 11111001001010 11110 111110100110 111110 1 111111111010 1111 111100111110 0111 0110111110111 11100 111111111111 1111 101011110110 01111 101110111010 111011 10 111111110110 1110 101010101010 1111 1010010100011 1111 101010100011 1101 101111111010 11010 101110111110 111110 100 111111101110 1111 111111101100 1111 101011101010 1111 1011100101110 1101 101111001010 11011 101010101010 111011 100 111011101010 1101 101010100110 1111 111010110010 1101 101110111010 1111 101011101010 10010 101010101010 111110 10 111111110110 1111 11110111001110 1111 101111111110 1111 10110101101110 1111 101110111010 11101 101010101110 111011 10 101010111010 11110 101010101110 11110 101111111110 0101 101011101010 0111 101011111011 1101 101010101011 1111 101100100010 10001 101010101110 1111 101011101111 1111 101010101110 1101 101110111010 1101 101011101010 1111 101011101010 1111 101010111110 1111 101010111010 1111 101100110010 1111 101111101010 1101 111111111010 1101 111010111011 11111 101110101011 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 186
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, by, and, of, that, things, my, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, by are repeated.
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- summary of The Litany Of Nations;
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