This is an analysis of the poem The Word And The Deed that begins with:
THE Word was first, says the revelation:
Justice is older than error or strife; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded Xecefdfd cgcgcdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101010 1001011011 0101000110 110110111 1111101010 0110100111 1111011010 101001010101 0101101110 1110100101 10101101010 110100101 0101111010 1110101011 101101101110 010100101 10101101010 0110100101 101001001010 111011111 101001101010 100100101 01001011000 10111000011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word deed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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