This is an analysis of the poem That Rock Was Christ that begins with:
When Israel's tribes were parch'd with thirst,
Forth from the rock the waters burst;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee ffee gghh eeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10010101 11110101 10011101 01010111 000111001 010110001 01111101 11010111 01010101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11110111 01110101 11011101 01011100 01011101 01110101 01010101 11010111 01010111 11011101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; but, and are repeated.
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