This is an analysis of the poem Ninth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:

In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,
While sadly round them Israel's children look,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe cccffX aaXccX fXghXg iibggb bbdjjX eekXXk ddehhhXgghggh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101110101 11001011101 011101001 1111110101 0101010001 01101001001 1100010111 1101110111 11001111001 1001001101 1001010101 01010101010 10001111111 10111001111 111111110100 0111101101 101111100011 11111110010 1111110101 1101010101 11110101100 1101111111 0110010100 0101101101 10110100101 1101010110 10110100101 10101111110 10011101010 11010101001 0101011111 1011110101 0101110101 1010011101 0101110101 0100010101 1001011101 0101011101 10001100100100 01010110111 1101010101 0100011101 1111011101 0101010101 1011111101 1101011111 1110010101 0101010101 10101011111 1111011101 1101110101 1001011101 1101010111 0101010101 0101011101 1001111101 0101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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; his is repeated.

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