This is an analysis of the poem The Lonely God that begins with:

So Eden was deserted, and at eve
Into the quiet place God came to grieve. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddee ffeeggeebbhh ggiieejjkkjXeekkhhjjeejX kkiicchheeee bbeeggeeiifflleemmbbbbee eefflliieejj hhiieeeeXjhh iieeccccccbb jjeeffcchhkkbbeeeeeekkbblljjhheeffgg jjeXjXcckkjn jjkkffoohhjj Xknjkkeekknj jjbbggddjjjX ppjXcclllljj eejjeeeellffXeeaajjkkbbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,24,12,24,12,12,12,36,12,12,12,12,12,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0001011101 0111011101 0101110001 1101010111 0101110101 1011010111 1001110111 0101011001 0101010101 1101011101 1101010001 1101010011 1001110101 1101011101 1101011101 0101110101 0101001101 1101111101 1001110101 01001010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010001 1111010101 0111010101 0100110101 0101010101 0101010011 10001010101 1101110111 1110110101 1101001100 0111100101 0101010111 0101010100 1111111001 1101010001 1111110001 1101011101 0100011101 1111011101 0101010100 1001110011 0111011101 1001111101 1001011101 0101010011 1001010111 1101010111 1001110001 0011110111 11010111001 1111110001 0101010101 1101010001 1101111101 1101010101 1100110101 0011110101 1001110011 0101011101 1101010111 10011010001 0011110111 11010001101 11010010011 0101010101 0101110101 0001010111 0101010111 1001111001 0101010111 1101110001 0101011101 1101010101 1111111111 1101010001 0101010101 1110010101 1101010111 0101010001 0101010111 0001010001 1101111101 1001011111 1101001101 1001010100 1001010001 0101000111 1010011101 1101010101 0101010001 0101000101 0101011111 1111111100 1101010111 0001001101 010010001 0011011101 1001010111 0101011111 0101110001 1100110101 1111011000 0100100101 00010010101 1111001101 1111011101 0101011101 1101011011 1101010101 101000101 1100011111 1101010101 1100010101 1111010111 0110011101 0101011101 1001111111 1101010000 110011101 1101111101 0101110101 0100110101 010111001 1001010101 0101011101 01001111001 1101011101 0101110111 1111111101 1111010111 1111100101 1101110111 1001010011 1001011111 0100010001 1101110101 1101011011 0101011101 1101010111 1001010001 1001101001 1111000101 0100110101 1111010101 1101011101 110100101 0111110101 1011010101 1001100101 1101010101 10010101101 1101010101 0110010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010111 11000101110 0101110101 01010011000 1101011101 1100110111 1011010101 0111010101 1101110101 0111010100 1101111101 0100111101 0101010101 0001010101 0100010101 1110110001 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 0101110101 1100010110 0100010111 1101110101 0101011101 0101010100 1001110100 1111110001 0101010111 011110101 1100111101 1111111111 0100110111 1111010100 0100111101 0101000101 1110110111 0111011101 0010110001 0011000011 1101100101 1011010101 0100110001 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 11110111010 1101001001 0101011001 0111010111 0101010100 0101011101 0100010101 11000011101 0100110101 1101010101 0100110001 1101010011 1011110101 1101010101 1111110101 1111110100 1111010101 0101010001 0111010101 0101001101 1111010111 1100110111 1111011111 0101011101 011010010 1100010111 1100110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1111110001 0111010101 1111010001 1111011111 1111010101 1110111001101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • 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; his, and, so, whose, to, i, have, or, of, my are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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