This is an analysis of the poem To The Afflicted, Tossed With Tempests And Not Comforted that begins with:
Pensive, doubting, fearful heart,
Hear what Christ the Saviour says;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeefefe gfgfhhhh bebXhfhf aaaaigig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1110101 10011101 1110001 1111101 1111001 1110011 1110101 1111001 1110111 1111111 1110111 1011101 1011101 1110001 1100111 1010101 1111101 1110101 1110101 1110111 1011111 1110101 1000101 1110101 1010101 1010111 101101000 1110101 0110101 1010111 1101101 1010101 1000111 1111101 1110111 1111001 1100101 1010101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- 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; to, thy, thou are repeated.
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