This is an analysis of the poem Inspiration that begins with:

Whate'er we leave to God, God does,
And blesses us; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcc dbdb efef gfgf ahah cXci agag hfhf icic ahah icXc jkjk cbcb baba hbhb afaf glXX hfhf flfl cfcf Xhhhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100110111 1101 01111011 1101 00110111 11010111 01110101 0101110101 10010111 100011111 01010001 1100111100 10110101 10011111 10010101 1101011111 110100101 10110111 111111001 1011011111 11111001 11011000 111111000 11001110110 11011111 11111101 11011110 1101111101 11010101 11010101 11111101 1011011101 01110100 10111101 11011100 1001111001 11011100 01110011 01011100 0111110001 01010100 01011101 11011101 1110010001 110010110 11011101 010100010 1101110101 01010101 10111111 100010101 1101000101 11011101 111101001 11110111 0101010011 100101001 01111101 11111101 01110100101 101110001 11011101 01010100 0111110101 10111101 11000111 110100110 1111011111 10110101 11111111 11111111 10010111 11001101 01010101 010000101 0101110101 011101010 11011101 110111010 1101111111 110101 110001 110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • 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; god, who, but, and, with, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, which are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, such at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Inspiration;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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