This is an analysis of the poem The Call Of The Christian that begins with:
Not always as the whirlwind's rush
On Horeb's mount of fear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd eeeeffff ededgfgf cXcbhihi djdjkhkh fhfhlele bkbkgmgm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 11010111 010101 11010101 110101 11110101 01011010 01000101 0101010 10000101 110111 11010101 110101 11010101 0101001 10010101 010101 11111001 010101 11100101 111001 11111100 110011 11101111 101001 101101001 110101 01010101 010101 11010101 1101101 110100111 1101001 10110111 010101 01000111 110001 11010111 1101101 01001101 010101 01010101 010101 01110001 110111 11000101 110111 11000101 010111 11010101 011001 100111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, for, o'er, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, the are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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