This is an analysis of the poem First Sunday After Trinity that begins with:
Where is the land with milk and honey flowing,
The promise of our God, our fancy's theme?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefggcc adadhhcc iXXXccii XeXeddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010111010 0100111101 11010111110 11110110101 11110101 01010101 1101001101 1101110101 111111001110 1111000101 11000101010 1101010101 10010101 1100101101 1111111111 0101001101 10010101010 0111011001 110111011010 1101110111 01010101 01010101 1001011101 100101111101 101011101011 01011111110 11111111010 11001010110 11011101 11011101 11111100111 01110010100001 10111101110 11111100101 01110111010 10111111001 11110101 11011101 1101110111 11101010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, our are repeated.
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