This is an analysis of the poem The Creatures In The Lord's Hands that begins with:
The water stood like walls of brass,
To let the sons of Israel pass;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggff ccff hhdd iigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 10010101 11010111 010011101 11010101 11111001 01110111 11010101 11011111 110111001 01010111 11010101 1110100 11010111 01001001 10010101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11110101 11010001 10110111 11010101 01000111 11110101 11010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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