This is an analysis of the poem Bless Us Oh Lord that begins with:
Bless us Oh Lord, bless us all.
Let other love us and let us love others....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXXaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11011111110 11011011011001110100 101001010111 1101010110100111 1001100101011 10110111 0100110101111001 101101010110011 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, let, or, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lord is repeated).
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