This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Grant that begins with:

Father! whose hard and cruel law
Is part of thy compassion's plan,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cbbc deed XbbX feeX geeg XffX heeh hffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101 01011001 11100011 11010111 10010101 10101101 01000101 11110101 010101001 01110101 01011101 01001101 01010011 11000101 11010101 11101100 01010111 11000111 11011101 11011101 01010001 011101001 01011001 010010101 110100010 01010101 10011101 11111001 01010110 01000101 00110101 11010100 11111101 11000101 11110101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; his is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Death Of Grant;
  • central theme;
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