This is an analysis of the poem Satan Returning that begins with:
When Jesus claims the sinner's heart,
Where Satan ruled before;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede dfdf fgfg fbfbXfdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 01010101 110111 11110101 110001 11011101 110101 11010101 010101 11011111 110101 01010111 010101 10110101 010101 01110101 1110101 11110001 110101 01010111 110101 11011111 110101 11100101 100101 11110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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