This is an analysis of the poem Lord, Save Us, We Perish that begins with:
Pilot of the soul, awake,
Save us for thy mercies' sake;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd eeff ggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101 1111101 1010101 1111101 11011101 1011101 1011010 1011111 01110001 011010001 1110111 1010011 01110001 01011101 11011101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; save is repeated.
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