This is an analysis of the poem The Power Of God that begins with:
If the power of God were mine, and the ample turn,
I never could dwell in my law, which is 'stablished and stern, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb aa cc cc bb cc dd ee ff X X aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0010010110101 110110111010011 11101111001011 11101100100100 11101101001001 11101100101101 1011111100111 101011011011001 111101101101 110011010101001 11111001111111 1010111110111 1001110100101 11101011001101 10100101110011 11010111101101 110011001001001 001111100101 101001111010001 01100100101101 111011001110100 101011110010100 1011011010101 11110111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, not, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Power Of God;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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