This is an analysis of the poem In The Hour Of Trial that begins with:
In the hour of trial, Jesus, plead for me,
Lest by base denial I depart from Thee.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddaa eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001001010111 11101010101 11111000101 11111010101 01001010111 10101010111 1010101100 10101011100 11101110111 11101111101 11111011101 11111011111 111101010111 11110000101 11101011101 10111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words grant, when are repeated.
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