This is an analysis of the poem Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef Xgbg dede hdhX acac bibi cfcf gaga fXfd fjfj ajaX bkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 11011101111 110010011111 1101011111 1001010111 1101011101 1111010111 1011111001 1100111111 0111010111 1100010101101 1111000101 1011001100 10010100111 1101011111 1101110101 11010110101 1011010101 0111101101 1011111101 1111010111 1011010101 0101010101 1111011110 11010010101 1111111111 11010011001 101111101 1111011101 1100110101 1101011101 1101111101 1011110011 1001110001 0111100111 10110010111 1101110011 10110101001 1111110101 0101010101 1111011111 11001011111 11001010111 1101011101 1110101111 1111011111 0100110111 0101111111 1111001111 11010111001 11110111001 01110101100 1011101101 1111110101 0011011111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; we, and, our, for, may, with, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
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