This is an analysis of the poem Christ's Triumph After Death (Excerpts) that begins with:

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But now the second Morning, from her bow'r,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbbccc XdedXefff Xggggghhf XfeheXbbb aeaeaaaaa aheheebbb Xieiecbbb Xbhbhheee Xciciiddd iajajjhhh aekekkeeX XhchXcgXg Xhghggccc XbebXeeee Xijijjlll Xgcgcceee XceXeXXee Xleleebbb Xeeeeeaaa Xahahhmam X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101010001 0101000111 0100010101 01101011101 1100111001 0101110101 1011110001 111111010101 1 110001100101 01110000101 0101010111 11001110100 0100011101 11011011110 10111111010 0111010101010 1 1101011101 0101010101 1001011011 10110010101 0101000101 0111110101 1101010101 11011010100 1 11111111010 1111010101 1111011101 1111111101 1111111000 110101001011 110101010011 1111110111011 1 1011011101 1101000101 1111011111 1101011101 1111110001 1100110101 0101011111 111110011111 1 11110111001 11010010011 1111011111 1111110111 1011111111 1111011101 101111101 111100110101 1 1110110100 1111101101 1111011011 111111010 010111010 1111111101 1110110101 111101110101 1 1101010101 110101001 1101000101 1101000111 1101010101 1101010101 0101100101 110111010101 1 1101001111 1011011101 0100110011 1101011101 1101011001 0101000101 0101001101 111111110101 1 1101110101 11010101010 0101100101 11010011010 01110101010 1100010101 0100110101 11011011101 1 1101011001 11100000101 0101100111 1001000101 1101110111 011101110 1101010010 11110101010 1 1101101101 1101001100 0101010101 1001010110 01101000101 10111101110 011100101010 0101010101110 1 1111001101 1101010101 1100011101 0101110011 1101111111 010110111 1111010101 0100110110101 1 011101101 0111110001 1101010101 1101011100 11110011111 011001101 1111110101 11110111011 1 1111110101 1101010100 1111001001 0101111101 1101011001 0101011101 1101110101 010110011101 1 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101100101 1111010101 0110110101 0001010111 010110111101 1 11001101101 0101010101 10110101000 0101110101 110101100 10010101010 0101110101 1011001110101 1 01010100101 1101111001 0101011101 0100110001 0101111101 10110010001 1101111101 110101111101 1 1101010101 1111010101 1011101101 1011010111 1011110101 1101010101 1101110101 111101000101 1 1111000101 1101110111 1011010111 100011101 1101111101 110101100 1111111001 100101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • 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; you, so, and, thou, never, his, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, and, such, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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