This is an analysis of the poem Humbled And Silenced By Mercy that begins with:
Once perishing in blood I lay,
Creatures no help could give,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cdcd efef gaga hghg ieieXhghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 101111 11011001 111111 11010101 110101 11010101 111001 11010101 111111 11000101 110111 111101101 110101 11111111 111111 11111111 111101 01010111 111001 11010101 110101 110101011 010101 11111001 110111 10111101 110111 11110101 010001 10111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, it are repeated.
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