This is an analysis of the poem The Relapse that begins with:
My God, how gracious art thou! I had slipt
Almost to hell, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXababacdcdececcfcfghghcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111 1101 1101011101 0101 1111110101 1111 1111011101 1101 1111011111 01001 1101110101 1111 1101010101 1111 1101111111 1101 0101010111 1111 1011010101 1111 1110010111 1101 1111001101 0101 1101110111 1111 1101010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 908
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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