This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Piece Of Silver that begins with:
HOLY Lord Jesus, Thou wilt search till Thou find
This lost piece of silver,--this treasure enshrined ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110111111 01101001001 0101101011 1101001011 10110111101 110110011101 01101011111 10010010111 01101010001 01000110111 11110011011 1011011001 10110111101 11111011111 110101011101 011010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, it are repeated.
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