This is an analysis of the poem Our Father’s Business: that begins with:
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF 'CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE.'
O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbbC debfbgb abheciaacd jbgkbedahfcbcC blmn hXlclceahbC hafbfneh ghiaam fiibbC XhfhfjF baeaXa kefeae jflfaf dhaXehXifbfjF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,7,10,14,4,11,8,6,6,7,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110010010 1111010101 10001010001 1000010101 1111110001 1111 0001110101 0100010101 1001011111 1101010101 01000110101 1101110101 1101011111 1100010101 1101100101 1101010111 1001111111 11100111010 1001010100 11010000111 11011001101 1111010001 0111010111 0101010111 0101110101 10001011001 1101110011 1011000111 1111011101 1101010011 1111101111 1111011101 10110011001 1110010100 01010100111 11100111010 1111 1101110111 0111010101 110100100100 0101110101 00110101000 0101010001 11100100101 1000110101 1101010101 1100001101 0101110001 1101010101 0101001101 11001101101 1111 1101010111 0110110111 1011010111 1001011111 1101110101 0101011101 1001001101 110101101 1111010100 1111001101 1101011100 1101010111 1100011001 11000101010 11010110001 1111111111 1100001100 0101110101 1101110001 1111 110111 111100101 110101 11100101 111101 10101010 10001 111100101 110101 1100100101 1010001 11010101 101101 10110101 010101 11010101 110101 110101001 1010101 110101001 0101010 0100100101 1101010 11111101 1101110 11011101 110101 11010100 010100 11011111 111100 11011101 110101 10110101 111111 10101010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, this, and, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words earth's, our, no, and, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world, one are repeated).
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