This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Empty Sky Of June Without A Stain, that begins with:

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all they that forsake
Thee shall be ashamed ; and they that depart from... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcddefgcgXhcdbgcaedijjkflkjjlXXdigXmXmh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101011101 11001111010 110100010111 0100101001010 11111110111 111011111111 10100 11001010111110 0100111011100 101010 11111101100100 1001011011110 00100001 11111111010 01011011110101 11101 1101011010000 100101111111 0111 11111111110 11111010111 11011 1011011110 10111111000110 1111 0100101111111 010100010111 11 1111010011 1111001011 011011 11101010100011 110 1111100111 11001011 101100100111010 101110110110 0111010 1010110100101 10101111111 100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1714
  • Average number of words per stanza: 338
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i, and, my, of, thou, hast, cannot, god, unto are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cannot, hast are repeated).

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