This is an analysis of the poem Lie-Awake Song that begins with:
God has a house three streets away,
And every Sunday, rain or shine, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddeefbfbggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110011111 11110101 11100101 11011111 01110101 11010101 11010101 11010001 11011101 11001101 11010101 11010101 11110111 11010111 11010111 11011111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Lie-Awake Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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