This is an analysis of the poem What Would It Be? that begins with:
Now what were the words of Jesus,
And what would He pause and say,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbXXXX AdcddeeXX AffffcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 1111111 010010111 0100101 11111111 11011011 11000110 101111111 111010110 110010010 0111101 01011001001 1101001 111111101 11110011 11101011 100111001 01101011 110010010 0111101 0011100101 1101101 111000111 110010110 010010110 1101111001 110001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; your, of, it are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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