This is an analysis of the poem The Divine Lullaby that begins with:
I hear Thy voice, dear Lord;
I hear it by the stormy sea... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabbX AcXccX AaXaaX adaddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11010101 11011111 11101101 01111101 101110 111111 01010101 01010111 1011100101 110010111 11110 111111 11010101 11010001 11010101 11010101 101110 111111 11011101 01111101 11110101 101101001 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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