This is an analysis of the poem The Wise Men that begins with:
Step softly, under snow or rain,
To find the place where men can pray;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdccd efeeX egeeg hihi ibiib abaab hahha fcfc jajaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,4,5,5,5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 01011111 01011101 111101 11110111 11010011 111010111 11011101 1111111 11111101 11010101 111111001 11011101 01001000 010100101 01010100 01011111 11011001 11010100 11001111 01011101 11010001 111100 01110011 11010101 11010001 11001111 11011101 01111110 11110101 11110101 01110111 01000101 010101011 01111011 11011101 11001111 11001111 11010101 11111101 11010101 111101 11010101 01000101 10110111 11010101 111101010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; we, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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