This is an analysis of the poem God's Gift that begins with:
Out of the sword's swift lightning,
And the cannon's withering breath,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbaDED fgfXfhbh cXceddXD XdXddgXg AhchXDEd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110 10101001 10101110 1011101 1001101 10110101 100101 11001 11011010 0101010 01001010 10111100 0100101 1101001 111011 101001 1010010 101010 1011010 101101 0101101 01101001 100101 11001 1001010 101101 1011010 101101 10111101 1100111 101101 11001 1001110 1010101 10101010 1011101 1001101 10110101 100101 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, to, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, not are repeated.
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- summary of God's Gift;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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