This is an analysis of the poem From ‘the Soul’s Travelling’ that begins with:
God, God!
With a child’s voice I cry, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXAbbcaddcee fefggeahaheeeeXiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11 001111 111000 11 1101111111 1011110111 1111001 1101110101 1101010101 1101111100 0101111101 0100011111 01100101101 1101110101 11111111110 1111011111 1111100001 0111010101 101001001010 1111 1111010101 0101001001 1011011001 1001111101 0101011101 0111010001 1101010101 0111110100 110101011010 10110101010 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; god is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, for are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase back connects the lines.
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