This is an analysis of the poem A Gospel that begins with:
O HAPPY feelings coming from outside,
You have so deeply driven into my soul,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde XfgX agXbhib bfhX cbbid edcd ciXXXc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,4,5,4,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010011 11110100011 1110010 0101001 1110010101 1101010001 1111011100 1111010 01010001011 11010111 10111 110011000 1111010101 11010101010 11010011101 1111110101010 1111111100 11111100 11010101 0101000100 1111010111 11011110011 1111010 11011101 1110110101 111101 11001110101 111011001010 1111011111 11101110101 0101111111 0101110101 11010111 1101110101 101101111101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, o, thou, a are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Gospel;
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