This is an analysis of the poem Obedience that begins with:
Trust him in the common light;
Trust him in the awesome night;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dad XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 1100101 1110111 1111111 1111111 1111101 1110101 111 0001 10101010 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; trust, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word trust is repeated.
The author used the same word trust at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Obedience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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