This is an analysis of the poem What Kind Of God? that begins with:

What kind of God would He be
if He did not hear the...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcd edc AbfeXc AXbgg ff XbX dacXX cXag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,6,5,2,3,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 010110 1011 11 1 11101 011 1 11101110 0011111100010 1010111 001001 001 11 11101110 001010001111 01001 10 1 1111001001001 10010010 110100101 111100 10 1 101110 0101101 01 1 10010110110 1011011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of What Kind Of God?;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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