This is an analysis of the poem The Christian Slave that begins with:
A CHRISTIAN! going, gone!
Who bids for God's own image? for his grace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacaacaddaeXeeffeXggXchhXfeefehheeXfecaacafbaiddiaeeaicci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1111110101 1111000101 1001001 111110 1111110001 10110111001 010101 011101 10110011111 1101100101 111101 010111 10011110001 1011001111010111 010111 1111010100 1011011101 110111 1111010 1101010101 11001011101 011101 110101 0111000101 1001010101 110110 111101 0101010111 1111010101 1111 1100111 0101011111 1011110111 110101 110101 1001000101 1100010101 010111 1101001 0101010111 0111010111 111001 111101 1001010101 0101010101 110101 101111 1101011101 1001010101 110101 100101 0011100101 0011111101 110101 110011 10010110001 1001000101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2138
- Average number of words per stanza: 390
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, his, from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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