This is an analysis of the poem The Great Tribunal that begins with:

John in vision saw the day
When the Judge will hasten down;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dbdbefef cggXgfgf ahahgggg fgfgifif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1111101 0010001 1110111 100111 1011111 1010101 11101001 1110101 1110101 10111001 0100101 1010101 10011101 1111111 1011001 0010101 1110101 11111000 1010101 1010101 1111111 01101111 1010111 1110101 1011101 1111001 1011101 1010101 1110101 1111111 1111101 1110101 1000101 1111111 0110101 0011101 1001101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Great Tribunal;
  • central theme;
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