This is an analysis of the poem The Word that begins with:
Voice of the Holy Spirit, making known
Man to himself, a witness swift and sure,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcdeedaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010101 1001010111 1001011111 1011011001 1101000101 0101000111 01110000100 1101110100 1101010011 1001010001 0101010100 1001110101 1101010001 0001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Word;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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