This is an analysis of the poem After Thomas Kempis that begins with:
I.
Who follows Jesus shall not walk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede X fefe fefe X agXg bdbd X egeg fhfh a ijij jeje a ejej adad kgkX X lglg meme mgmg X eec nnc ggbggb eeXeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,3,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111 01010101 10010101 11010101 11010111 01111111 11111101 11010001 1 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010111 10110011 11010101 11011011 10100111 1 11000101 10110101 11110100 10011101 10011101 11011101 01010111 10100101 1 01010011 01010111 010010011 01011101 10010100 11111111 010101001 11111111 1 10011111 111111 11110101 111101 10111111 110111 01010001 111111 1 01111100 110111 10100101 011111 11110011 011101 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 01011100 111110 1 0001010 010101 0101110 110101 0111010 110001 1111110 111111 1111110 111111 1111010 100111 1 1110101 1110101 11101 1011111 1110101 10101 1010101 10110001 10111 1010101 1010101 10101 1010001 1010110 111100 1111101 1110111 001110
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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