This is an analysis of the poem Christian And Jew that begins with:

A Dialogue
'Oh happy happy land!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaXbX ccXdX XXXeXX cXfXX gbhbh dggdhg iijij afafX acacc ahaXX ieeiX XhiihiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,6,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101 110101 101101 010101 1011111011 1111 100111 11111 1100110101 110111 11110 110100 110100 1100110010 1111 110101 1111 101101 1010100 1101 1101010011 111101 111101 0100001 111101 110101 0101100101 110111 110111 1111110011 10001 1111 1010101 100101 110101 1101 1001010111 011111 1001 1100111 111101 1101111100 1011 1101 111001 111101 01010101 110010101 11010101 0101010101 11010101 0011100 111101 110101 1111010101 0101010111 011 111010 11110 11 0101110111 0111011100 1111 1001111111 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, our, her, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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