This is an analysis of the poem Lot's Wife that begins with:

And the just man trailed God's shining agent,
over a black mountain, in his giant track,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb deXXceae dcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111010 10011000101 10101110010 111111111 10110011010 0111110101 10101010011 1111011101 0101010101 1001011101 01010000101 101110001 10110101111 1101001101 10111100010 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her is repeated.

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