This is an analysis of the poem A Word In Season that begins with:

THIS is a day the Lord hath made.'--Thus spake
The good religious heart, unstained, unworn, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbabbccdeebbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 00010111011 0001010110 1001010001 1111011101 11110010101 1111010111 1101011101 10100110101 11001000101 1111010111 0101111011 0101010111 1101110111 01110100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Word In Season;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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