This is an analysis of the poem Look Unto Me, And Be Ye Saved that begins with:
As the serpent raised by Moses
Healed the burning serpent's bite;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd ebebfgfg Xhchfbbb ededcici hjhjakak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1111101 11111010 1010111 10111110 1111101 11111010 1111101 11111010 1110111 10101010 1111111 11111010 1110101 10101110 1110110 11011010 1110111 1011101 0011011 11111110 1110101 11110110 1110101 11111010 1110101 11111010 1011101 10101011 1110111 11101011 1110101 00101010 0110101 10111010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, thou are repeated.
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