This is an analysis of the poem Trust In God that begins with:
Deep trust in God—for that I still have sought
Through all the grim doubts that bemock the soul, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcddXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111111 1101111001 10001001101 11010011101 110010111010 1111000101 010100010010 111110111001 0101010101 11011001001 0101110100 1001110111 1101011101 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
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