This is an analysis of the poem Judgment Day that begins with:

Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate,
All souls claims to adjudicate... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbaXccccaaXXaaddaadXbXXXeeffeeggaXXXffgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011101 11100101 10011101 10101011101 110100110 110100010001 010100101 1101000110 101101011101 11010100010001 111011111 010111011100111 11010101111101 111110101110111 11010101110101 011010001010101 11010100010101 01000101011101 11101111010101 11010101100101 11100111111101 10011001010101 11111101011100 0101010001010 111110101110111 11010100010001 10100101110111 01011001110101 11010101011111 11101010011111 11010100110111 11010001011101 11010100110101 11010111010101 11011100110101 01010100111101 11011111110101 1111111101101000 01110101011011 01010001110110 10111101111101 111110101011101 11010001010101 101010101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 449
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, ', said, foot, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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