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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