This is an analysis of the poem For Easter Sunday that begins with:
Again the Lord of life and light
Awakes the kindling ray;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdbdefaf ccgceeeechXhXcec ggXgeiaicgagfjbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 1000101 10011001 110101 11011111 010101 11011101 010001 01010101 111001 110101001 1111001 110100111 010101 11010001 010111 10010101 010101 010101001 010111 0100101001 010101 11110111 000101 11010111 010101 01010111 111101 1101001001 010101 110101001 110101 01011111 010101 110100101 110101 11110101 010101 11010101 0100011 01110111 110111 11011101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thee is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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