This is an analysis of the poem I Am The Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51 that begins with:

I kening through Astronomy Divine
The Worlds bright Battlement, wherein I spy... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcX adeXcc fgfgah aiaidd jXjXjj echXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 0111000111 0101110101 0111101111 1111010101 1101011111 1101010110 0101110101 1101011101 01011101010 0100100101 1101010101 0101111111 0101111111 10111101011 1100111111 0111011101 1101110101 0011110101 1101110111 01010100111 1111000101 11010101111 1111011101 01110101011 1001011011 1110110111 1111001111 0111110111 1111010101 1100100101 1111010001 1101011001 11110111110 0101101111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; my, and, this are repeated.

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