This is an analysis of the poem From Mount Gerizzim that begins with:

esides what I said of the Four Last Things,
And of the weal and woe that from them springs;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb bb cc dd ee ee ff gg hh Xi jj gg kk ll gg cc al ll aa mm nn ee oh gg ff ff gg gp hh al bb gg oo bb aa ii aa dd bb cc Xk ee gg bb gg aa ll ee ll gg oo ff oo gg bb oo gg bb al cc gg gg bb Xf ll ll ii bb kk gp la lX aa pp gg kk gg qc gp gg ll gg cc ll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10011100111 10011110001 1101110011 1111011011 1101001101 1101010101 0101001011 1111001101 1001010101 1101111101 1110010101 0111011011 1001010001 1111111111 1001111101 0101010101 11100011110 11101111 1101100101 0111111011 1111011010 1011111101 011111101 0101110011 11010111011 1111111101 1011010101 0001101101 1111010110 100111101 1111010101 1101011101 1111110011 0101110101 1111110101 1100010101 1110101101 1101110101 1111111111 1001101111 0101010111 0101010111 0111010101 0111010101 0101010101 1111110101 1001011011 0111110101 1111110001 1101101111 1101011100 1101110111 1101010111 1101101101 0001011101 0111010001 1111110111 0101010100 1101100101 1100111101 1101110100 1101110101 1111110101 1001011111 1111011100 1111010101 1100010101 1111011100 1111110101 1101010101 110111101 0001011101 1111111101 1101111101 010100111 1101110111 1111011111 1101011111 1101111101 1111011111 0110010111 0101100101 1111111000 0101111100 1100111101 0101011111 101100011 1100101011 0111011111 1001110101 1101110101 00110110100 011010111 1011010101 0101011100 1101010100 1111101001 1101010001 0111011111 1101111111 0101011110 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 0101101101 1111011101 1001011001 1101010111 1001110101 1100111101 1101010101 1111111101 0101001001 1111110101 0101011101 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 1100010011 1101111101 010111111 1001011101 1101010101 0111010101 1001111100 0111011111 1101011101 010110011 1101011110 1101000010 100100100 0111011100 1111000111 1101111011 1100110101 1101011101 11011111001 1101010101 1101110101 110111001 0101001101 1101110100 1111011110 101101100 1101010100 1111011100 1111010101 111100101 1101100100 1111010100 1101011101 1101110101 0111111001 1001011111 0111011101 1111000101 101010100 1110010111 0111011110 101010100 11101011 110100110 0100110111 11110001001 1111110101 1101001110 0001110101 1101011101 1100011010 1111011111 1101101001 1110110101 11010011101 0111010101 1001000101 1001010101 1111111011 0111000101 011011010 1111010111 1011001001 1001000101 1101100101 1111010101 0101010111 1010000110 11110010111 111001101 1101011110 0111010111 1101110110 1111100001 1111110111 1101110111 1100011111 0111010100 1011010011 1111011101 0111101111 1101101101 1001011010 1101111101 1111011110 0111001111 1001011001 1101010101 1110110011 110101001 11001110101 1101110101 1111111101 1101010101 110100101101 1111010101 0110110101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010111 1101010111 1101100101 1111101100 1101100101 1101010101 100101001 110101111 0101001011 101001001 1100100111 1001000100 1101000100 1001001110 1001010011 1001110111 1101010101 0111111111 110101011 0111110100 1111010000 1101111101 1111110011 1111110001 1110011110 1111110001 11010101001 1101011111 011001011 1101111111 0010111101 1101110001 1110010100 0101100101 1101110001 1011111111 1111011101 011101001 1101010101 110011101 1010110101 1101100101 0110111101 1101011101 011111110 1011110111 0101110111 1101000111 110111010 1101110111 0111011110 1100110101 0111110111 0101011101 1100110101 0101010111 1111011101 0100111011 0101111101 1001111111 1110110001 0011110101 1111111011 1010111101 0101011111 010111101 1111010111 1001111011 011111111 1001111001 1001011111 1001110100 0101011101 0111110111 0111011101 1001010100 1101010101 1110110111 1101110101 1101011101 1111010001 1101001101 111101111 011001011 0011011100 1100010111 1101110100 11001011001 1101011111 1111010111 1101110111 1111111101 1001111101 1111010111 0111000111 0111010110 0110100101 1101111100 1101110100 1011010100 1101111000 1101110101 1001010101 0101010101 1001000111 1111011101 0101011111 1101010111 1110111101 0100011110 1111110101 0111010001 1001111100 1111010001 11110111010 1101110100 1111010001 0100110111 0101011100 1111011000 111101001 0101110101 1111010101 0101001101 1111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 171
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 342
  • 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; that, it, of, thee, and, in, his, nor, i, help, to, we, while, he, with, thy, their, be, when, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, thee, before, and, we, like, the, by, while, he are repeated.

    The author used the same words while, he, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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