This is an analysis of the poem God Rules Alway that begins with:
Into the world's most high and holy places
Men carry selfishness, and graft and greed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacX dedefbfbX ghghXcfcX fifijhjhX kekeflflX Xmgmhb hb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,6,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00011111010 1101001111 01010100010 1101010101 01010111010 1101000101 10010101010 0111111101 111110 10011001010 1111010001 010101010010 01101110011 11010100010 10001110111 01010100010 0111110011 111110 11110101010 11011101001 10110101010 1101010001 10110101000 0111010111 111101110010 1101111101 111110 000101011010 1101110101 11100101010 1101011101 11110101011 1101001111 11011111111 0011111110 111110 11110101110 0011010101 01011111010 0101011111 11010101010 1111110101 11011101010 0111110101 111110 11110101010 1100110101 110101001010 1101000111 011101001110 0101010101 00011101010 01010100101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, of, no, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, no, his are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word alway at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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