This is an analysis of the poem To Live in the Mercy of God that begins with:
To lie back under the tallest
oldest trees. How far the stems ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcd aeeaf gbagbbhgX fcXf f f XdXXgXhfXahXdXaagh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,9,4,1,1,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110010 1011101 11 011010 10 01001001001 101100111 11101110 10101100 11 11100 10010101 01010 01010 11111 110101010 01010010 01010 10101100 0101 1110 111 111 01001001 01100010 1011001 1000111 01101 1001 1010110100 111 100101 1010 01 10100 1 0101100 01001100100110 111 1111100 111011 1010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To Live in the Mercy of God;
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- idea of the verse;
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