This is an analysis of the poem Peter Walking Upon The Water that begins with:

A Word from Jesus calms the sea,
The stormy wind controls;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd efef gaga ahah hihi hjhj klkl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 010101 11011100 01011 01010111 111101 11010101 111101 11010111 100111 11111101 111101 01111101 1111001 11010101 111101 11111111 110001 11011111 111101 010111001 111101 11010111 111111 10111101 111111 11111101 111111 01110111 111101 11010111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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