This is an analysis of the poem Barnfloor And Winepress that begins with:
And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2 Kings VI: 27... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XXaabbcccc XaddeXaacc eeffXc aXggccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,10,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111111111100101100100 1111 11111010 011101010 11110011 11110001 10010111 1010101 101011101 111101001 11010101 1110101 111111010 11001101 11011101 11010101 10011101 00100100 11110001 0111001 10110101 00110011 01010111 01110101 11010111 010111001 10110100 11010001 01111101 11011100 111101001 11111101 11011101 110110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, has, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, when are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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