This is an analysis of the poem There Is Mercy With Thee that begins with:
Lord, should'st thou weigh my righteousness
Or mark what I have done amiss,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddcXXcXdddbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 11111101 111101 11011101 11111101 110111 11111101 10110101 010101 11110010 11010101 110101 11110101 010010101 101101 010100111 11011101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; to is repeated.
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