This is an analysis of the poem We Must Believe that begins with:
_'Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief.'_
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AbbccddeeafaAX AddddeebbafaAX AggeebbXXafaAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111100 1101 1001010111 1101011101 11111000101 0111000101 0100010001 0100010101 1111010101 1011010111 10111010101 1111011101 0101010101 1101 111100 1101 0111000111 0101011101 1101110101 0101110101 1111110111 1101000101 0101000101 0101000101 0111001111 0111001101 1011111101 1101 111100 1101 11110001101 0111000101 0101010111 1001000101 0101010001 11101101101 0111011110 11110011100 1011100101 11111111001 0111010101 1101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word unbelief at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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