This is an analysis of the poem Genesis Bk Xiii that begins with:

ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to that
dark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close stood the evil...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdaefdfegh ifhjfkfjb ba hkjaX aljheXdmhdceadh njiXhajhnX gianed hXhlnnajadhhh aeijaaankmXhdhlalkkkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,2,5,15,10,6,13,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111110101 110101110111010 101000101001110 10101111111110 10110111110111 01010101010111 101010101110011 10111110111010 1011011001111110 1010100101110 1011001010110101 1110100001100010 1010010101 111101100100101010 0110100101111100 010101011101000 0111111101011010 110111111101000 10001010111011101 011011011101100 110101011010110 10101010000 1110010111111 11001111110101 0101110101111 111010100101101 10110101011110 1110101000110001 11100111 111101111101011 10110010101011011 11101001011110 111010100111101 110010111100110 11101110011111 011110101111010 01111101001101010 11111111010101 1010110110011010 1011111101001010 1011101111110 11101111001101 10011010010101010 0101011110011 11110011011111 01111101010111 1100101101010101 101101010110011110 11101010111000101 11010101011111 0111100001111100 110111010111110 1011010001111101 1101111010 11110111100011 11101010111110 1101001110011 1010110100011 11100100101011 1001110 11101011101011 1001111000101110 01001011111010101 101010101111010 110111001001011 11011110101 0101110101010111 1110111111101 01011111001001 111111101111101 110111110001011 110100101110101 1010110110111 1111010101011111 101010101101001 101011110001001 0101110101100110 011111111111 10010111010111111 010101010101111 10101101110101110 0101111010111101 1000101111111100 10011001111110 1011100111100101 110101010111010 10010111111101 10011110001011010 11010111010011 1010111011111010 100101101111111 10111111010101001 1111010101001101101 01100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, such, to, for, in, my, they, thou, we, that, or are repeated.

    The author used the same word ll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines my is repeated).

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  • summary of Genesis Bk Xiii;
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