This is an analysis of the poem Christ Crucified that begins with:
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way
To do the will of Christ, our Lord and Master, day by day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff ggbbaa ffhhiijj eekkggXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111110111111 01000111110111 10010111111111 110001010101001 01010101011101 11110101010101 11011101011111 11010101111101 01111111111101 01010111010001 11100101010111 11111101101111 11110101110101 11001101010111 11011101110111 11011011110101 01010101010111 11110101111101 01111101010101 110111001110111 1111110110110101 11011101111101 11111111010111 11111111111101 11011111111001 11010101110011 11110111011101 11011111011101 11010101110101 01010101010101 11011101010101 11011101111111 11010111010101 11010101110111 11111101100101 11011100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, from, and, their, that, pain, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i are repeated.
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- summary of Christ Crucified;
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