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

The Son of God in doing good
Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXccdd aeaeccXX fgfghhcc ijijkkkk eieiaacc bkbkhhjj dbdbbbii ckckXchh lblbeebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010100 110101011 11010101 11010100 10111101 11010101 01100101 10110011 110101101 11110101 101110001 010100101 1100111001 10010111 11110011 1001110100 100010111 10010101 110100111 10111101 11110111 11111101 10010111 110010101 01110101 01010111 10110111 01011011 011100010 1101001010 01010101 110010101 11101101 01111101 01110111 01010101 01011101 011001001 11110101 10010100 11010101 11010101 10111111 1000010101 11110111 01010101 11111111 10110101 11110101 10111101 11001111 11011101 11111101 111101011 11100111 01110001 11111111 11011101 11110101 11111101 01010110 10110001 01010101 01011101 01011101 11111111 010111101 11111101 111111001 10111111 110011000 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; their, our, from, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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