This is an analysis of the poem An Eastern God that begins with:
I saw an Eastern God to-day;
My comrades laughed; lest I betray...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaXcddeeffccggXcXXhhaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111101 11011111 01011111 01011100 01011111 111111100 11100111 11011101 11000101 1101110010 111011110 11110101 100011111 11110101 11011101 11111101 11111101 010011000 11111111 10111101 01011111 11000101 11010111 01011111 111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 928
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, no, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, no, what are repeated.
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