This is an analysis of the poem When Sorrow Comes that begins with:

When sorrow comes, as come it must,
In God a man must place his trust. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbcc ddccaa eeffgg ddgghhXAAdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 01011101 101100101 01000101 11110111 11011101 11000101 11100111 01110101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11100111 10111101 11110111 111010101 11010101 11000111 11011101 11010101 111111001 11010101 110110101 11010111 11011101 01011101 01011111 11010101 11011101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, we are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of When Sorrow Comes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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