This is an analysis of the poem The Latest Decalogue that begins with:
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddeeffggggbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 10100101 11010010 10010100 11111111 11000101 11111001 01010111 10110101 01010101 11111111 10000101 11010001 01010100 11111101 10110001 11110101 11101101 111101010 011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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