This is an analysis of the poem The Last Judgment that begins with:

With beating heart and lagging feet,
Lord, I approach the Judgment-seat.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggaa hhii eeff bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11010101 11100101 100111001 11101101 11111101 010111111 11111101 0100111111 1100111101 111111111 11111111 10100101 111110111 0101000111 110011111 01111111 110111101 111100101 111111101 11111111 10111111 11100111 11111100 00011101 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Last Judgment;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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