This is an analysis of the poem Equity that begins with:
No bird can sing in tune but that the Lord
Sits throned in equity above the heaven,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbaababXabbaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 110010001010 11010101110 1111010101 01010111001 0101101010 1101111101 010010001110 11111001011 101101010010 11011111010 1101110101 1111011101 110010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word heaven at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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