This is an analysis of the poem Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus that begins with:
Come, thou long-expected Jesus,
Born to set thy people free;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1011101 01111011 1111101 10111010 1010111 1010010010 10100101 11100010 1011101 10101110 1110101 11101010 1011101 11101010 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of, born are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word born is repeated.
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