This is an analysis of the poem Salvation Drawing Nearer that begins with:

Darkness overspreads us here,
But the night wears fast away;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfgfg hdhdgfgfXgagagdgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111111 1010101 1000101 1110101 1011101 1010111 1010111 1110111 1011001 1010111 00101101 1111111 1110101 1110101 100100101 1010101 1011011 1011101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1010011 11100101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; our, their, his, you are repeated.

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  • summary of Salvation Drawing Nearer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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