This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of The Lord that begins with:
The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:
Its storms roll up the sky:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcca adadeea fgfgeeA agaghhA gX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101111 011101 0101101101 110111 010100101 1010100101 10100111 1011011001 1011011 1101011011 11101101 1011011011 1001011001 00100111 101101101 101111 1001001101 1011001 10011001011 1001011011 00100111 111111101101 101011001 11011101001 11111011 11101111011 101001111101 00100111 1010011 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
The author used the same word gather at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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