This is an analysis of the poem What God Is Like To Him I Serve that begins with:

What God is like to him I serve,
What Saviour like to mine?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcbbXbbcXccXccbXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 110101 11011011 110111 11011111 111101 11111111 111111 11001100 110011 10101000 11011 11101101 111101 11011101 010001 10111111 110101 01110111 111111 11011100 111111 01111111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 742
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; my, he, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, my, and are repeated.

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