This is an analysis of the poem Faith that begins with:
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease
Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cdcd defe ghgh ifif jcjc kfkf clcl lmlmXclcl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 1111111111 1111000101 11111101 10111111 1001010101 1101101101 11000101 10010101 1111111101 1101011111 11110111 1110111 1001110101 1101001100 01111111 11110111 11010001010 1111010101 111100010 01110001 11010101010 1111011101 111101110 01110111 110111110 1111111001 11110101 01010111 10111101010 1111110111 111101010 1101111 0100011101 0101010101 10011111 11011101 0101100101 1001110101 110101001 11110101 1110010101 01011111001 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, and, me, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, that are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Faith;
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