This is an analysis of the poem With Mercy For The Greedy that begins with:
for my friend Ruth, who urges me to make an appointment for the Sacrament of Confesson
Concerning your letter in which you ask...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabccXb XcdXcd bcefbe Xfggfg ffhiiXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101011010101000100 0101100111 1010110111 101011101 111 11101 110101 11101101 110011 111 101111011 10111111001 0011101010111 0101011 110 010010 101000110101 1100011001010 110001101001101010 111101101 1101 111 11101010111 0111010111 101011010001 111001011 1111111 1010010111 0100001101 010 1010 1101010 0110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, to, you, i, its, his, born are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words me, your, how are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ask, cross, born are repeated).
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