This is an analysis of the poem Communion that begins with:
Lord, I have knelt and tried to pray to-night,
But Thy love came upon me like a sleep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaacddcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1111011101 11010110101 0111111101 0101011111 11001111101 1011011001 1101100101 0111011111 1011111101 10011111111 1001011101 1111111111 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; i is repeated.
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