This is an analysis of the poem Naaman that begins with:
Before Elisha's gate
The Syrian leper stood;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcdbb bebebb fcfcdd fgfgbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 0100101 111101 110110 11010101 11010101 110101 101101 101111 110111 11110101 10010110 110101 111101 1001111 110101 11011101 01001101 101111 010111 010111 111101 10111101 01110101 110101 110111 111101 110011 11110101 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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