This is an analysis of the poem Fourth Sunday After Epiphany that begins with:

They know the Almighty's power,
Who, wakened by the rushing midnight shower,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffggcb hheXdddd ddddcXii jjkkiibb hhggXXdd iillmmee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010010 110010101110 110101 0111010101 110111 01011001001 10010010101 110111111101 1101001 1101010101 100111 0100010101 101101 11110011101 1011110101 10011111101001 111101 11010010101 1101011 0101010010 111101 1101010101 01010110111 1111110110101 100101 11010101001 010001 1101010111 100101 0101010110 1111011101 101101010101 010111 00110110101 110111 1101101101 110111 1101110101 1111010101 100101110101 111101 1101110111 100100 10111110001 1111011 1110010101 01111100011 101101111101 110011 1101010101 110101 1101011101 110101 11010010101 1111110101 110111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, as are repeated.

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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