This is an analysis of the poem Tender Mercies that begins with:
Tender mercies, on my way
Falling softly like the dew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb adad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010101 11101001 1010111 1111111 1010111 10001100 0010111 1011101 1011111 1011101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
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- summary of Tender Mercies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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