This is an analysis of the poem Concerning Jesus that begins with:
I.
If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race...
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbadadcc X effeeffegbgXhb X fXiffiifbibiii X afXaaXXaffffff a bbbbbbbbgccdgd a icciiXcijeejje X gccggccgaggaag X fccffccfagagkg X fXffffffflflfl b ccccccccbXebcc a diiddiidgfgfdd X gmmggamgffnnhh X cccccccckookok X gdXggddganngag X ag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,8,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 0110010101 0101111101 10111100101 1001010111 1101010101 1101011111 10010000101 1011010001 11001111001 1100010101 11001011101 1101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1 0111111111 0101010100 1101010101 1001011101 0101001101 0100111111 1111011101 1010111101 1011110111 0111011101 1101111111 0101010010 11010011111 11010100011 1 1111110100 10011101100 0111111001 1011011111 0101011111 01110010111 11010011101 1111110101 0101100101 1011010001 1101000101 1001001101 01011100101 1101010001 1 0111010111 11001010111 1001010011 0111010111 1100110101 0111100101 1100011111 1101011101 1101001101 0101001101 10011101001 0111100101 1011011101 0111011101 1 0110010111 1110110111 1101100111 1111100101 0101010011 01001011101 1100110101 1111011001 0111010111 0111010101 1101110111 0101101101 1001110101 1101001001 1 1111100101 0111011101 1101010101 0111010101 11010101001 01010111010 1111010111 0101010111 1111011011 1101011101 0101010011 1101111101 1111110111 11011011101 1 1101110101 11001010101 1011010101 11111011011 0101010101 1111010101 01110101001 1101111101 11011001011 1101010111 1101110001 0111011111 1011010111 1001100101 1 0111110100 1111010101 1101001101 1001011101 1111010101 0111011011 1111010011 1111010101 1111111111 1101011101 0101111111 11111011001 11011111010 11110100010 1 0110010111 0111010101 0110111101 1011010101 1101011111 0101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101011101 1111100100 110100100101 01010101001 0101011101 11111101001 1 1111010111 1111110001 1001000101 11001100111 1101110101 0101010101 1101000101 0100010101 1101111100 1101100110 1011101101 1011111101 0111010110 11110010111 1 1101010101 1100010111 1101100110 0101010100 1001100100 0101100001 11001110101 1111111101 1011100111 1011010101 11111001111 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1 1111010101 1111011100 10001110100 11001101001 0111110101 0101010101 110011001000 1101011101 101101101001 011111011 1111010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1 1111000101 0101111111 1111011101 11001100101 10011101011 1011011101 1101011101 0111110101 11111001010 1101110101 1101010101 11111111010 11010111001 10010001010 1 110010011111 11010101001 1101011000 10110101001 1101000101 1001011101 1101010111 1101011101 1001110101 1101010101 1001010101 1111111101 1101010101 0101010101 1 11110011101 1111011101 1111000101 1111010101 1101010110 1101001111 1101010111 1001010100 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 1100110101 1011110111 1111110101 1 0001001111 1101000101 1101010101 100100111 1010010111 1101010111 1111010111 0111010101 110101111 101101001011 1001111111 11110011101 1101010111 01011101001 1 1001011111 1011000101 1111111111 1110110111 1111010011 1011111111 1111010101 1101110100 1101011111 0001010111 1111011101 0111110111 1111111111 1111111101 1 0101010111 0010100100101 0101010111 1001000101 1101011101 1001010101 11110100101 1111111101 1101011101 11011010101 0111011100 1101110101 1011110101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 37
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 287
- 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; it, i, in, and, what, thou, hadst, been, of, as, nor, or, true are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, as, never are repeated.
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