This is an analysis of the poem Is This Thy Kindness To Thy Friend (Christ A Redeemer And Friend) that begins with:
Poor, weak and worthless though I am
I have a rich almighty friend;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bbbb cdcd caca eded afaf gaca gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 11010101 10010001 11011011 110010101 11011101 11110101 11100101 11111101 11111100 100010101 11010101 111110101 11110111 01010101 10010101 10110111 01011101 11010101 10111111 11111101 110010011 111100111 11110001 01011101 110111001 10010101 11010101 10111111 11111110 10110101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; me, my, and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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