This is an analysis of the poem In No Strange Land (The Kingdom Of God) that begins with:

The kingdom of God is within you
O world invisible, we view thee, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaaa bcbc bdXd dede fgfgXfdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010011 110100111 110100111 110100111 10000111 101101010 01010101 111001010 01110011 110101010 111000101 010101110 11111101 010111010 11011101 11111010 110101001 111111110 11011111 1101001010 101101101 100111110 110010101 111101010 10100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; world, we, thee, o are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of In No Strange Land (The Kingdom Of God);
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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