This is an analysis of the poem Jesus Calls Us that begins with:
Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult
of our life's wild, restless sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX abXb XXcX dddX dece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 0111101 11101110 10101011 10111010 1010101 10111110 1011011 10110010 0011101 01101111 10101110 01110110 10111001 11101110 10111110 10111110 1011111 111010100 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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