This is an analysis of the poem The Good Lord Gave that begins with:
The good Lord gave, the Lord has taken from me,
Blessed be His name, His holy will be done...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadXdXefe ghbhidXdXahaigcg gfXfXjgjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110111001 1001010001 010111111010 0101110001 111110110011 10101110111 101010111011 10101011001 111110111110 11111001101 100111101110 101010010101 0110101111010 10101010101 101011101010 11110011101 001011101010 10101010101 101010100010 11101010101 101011101010 01101010111 100111101110 10101010101 111110101110 10111010111 101010101110 011111111101 100110111110 10111011101 111001101110 10101001100 111111010010 11110110111 001010011010 11101110101 11101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; his, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grave is repeated).
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