This is an analysis of the poem First Sunday After Easter that begins with:
First Father of the holy seed,
If yet, invoked in hour of need,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadaad eeeffe ggfbbf eeebbX aadhhX iXbeeb jjkllk bbgddX bbakkaXffibbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 010101001 111111 11111011 11010001 101101 01110101 110111001 110101 01011101 111101101 100111 11110101 1100101101 011101 11011101 01010111 1101111 11010101 01000101 110101 11010101 11010101 0011001 11111111 11010111 110101 101010101 11010101 0101010 100010101 110101111 010111 001011010 010101010 0111010 11110101 11010101 0101010 110101101 01011101 1101010 11011111 11111101 110111 01110111 01011111 110101 01110101 110010111 111101 01010111 1110101 101110 11011101 11011101 111101 01110111 11010101 110101 11110001 11110101 100101 010010111 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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