This is an analysis of the poem Good Friday that begins with:
O my chief good,
How shall I measure out thy blood? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggff hhii hhff ccjj kkff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11110111 11111101 1111 1111 10010011 11111111 1111 1111 11010101 11011101 0011 11110 011111010 11011111 1011 1101 110011101 11110111 1111 11010101 11001101 11111110 11111111 11111101 11111111 11011111 11111101 11011101 11010011 11110101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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