This is an analysis of the poem No Sign that begins with:

O Lord, if on the wind, at cool of day,
I heard one whispered word of mighty grace;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae abab fgfg haha Xfieie jaja
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111010101 0101010111 1111010111 0111111001 1100111111 11110101001 1101010111 1111101111 1011010111 1111010101 00110111001 1101011101 0101100101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 0111011111 1011010011 0011110101 1101010101 0101011101 11001000101 1101000101 111 1 1111001 1001011101 1101101101 1101101101 1101110101 1111111101 1101111110 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; heart is repeated.

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  • summary of No Sign;
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