This is an analysis of the poem On The Mystery Of The Incarnation that begins with:
It's when we face for a moment
the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXbXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111010 01111111001 01011111 101111001 1001010010 011001 10010101 011100111 100101110 1000110 11110 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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