This is an analysis of the poem A Judgment In Heaven that begins with:

Athwart the sod which is treading for God * the poet paced with his
splendid eyes;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcda aXXaea affff gfaff aaba aXhaaX giiji afXjf Xkhkak aalaXa magaa cfdfbX lmgmXmXm giiXi hffX gnaneX fff dXdobo Xgdd dhXhXX mdmfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,5,4,6,5,5,6,6,5,6,8,5,4,6,3,6,4,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101011010100 101 10110110100100100 101 101011001000110 1001 01001101010111 1001010 1101010101011101 1001101 101010010111111 1101 0111001001100010 10111 0110110010110010 11 0010010110000101 1010001010100111 10 1001011101010011 10 110101010010101010 10010010011111001 1010011011111001 101101110111010 1001 110110101100100 1100 0111101110101 10010 010100100101101 1010 100101100101000010 1 11010100100010111 01001010100100100 101 110010100100101110 1 1011000110110100 1000010101100110 1 01011011010011 11111 11100101010101 101 1010010100010111 111 1101001011001010 1 0101010010111011 1 101000110010 100001 0101001011111111 101 000100101010100100 1 100100101010111001 01010010101110 1010 0100110110100101 0 101101011110010 10 01010101010111 111 10110101001010110 1 01010010110111 11101 1001011101011011 1 1010111111101010 1 10101011111101 1001111101010010 1 1101110101111 101 1001010001010101 01110101110101100 110100101110011 11 01001110111010010 1 1011110111111 101 1001010111100101 1011111111010101 110101101001010100 111011001111111 1 1101011111100 01 10101010101110 1 11111011110001 11010101111010 100101110111011 1 101111110101 01 1001010110110010 1 111111111011 11 110100011010111 1011010111011 1001 110100101110101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; as, and, mary, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words paradise, never are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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