This is an analysis of the poem Now May He Who From The Dead that begins with:
Now may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1010001 1011111 1110101 1111001 1010001 0110100 1011111 0111001 1010101 1111101 1100011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; us is repeated.
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