This is an analysis of the poem God that begins with:

Who are you, my friend,
searching for God in heaven ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXccXXdeefegXhgdXahhbighahfXbhfXXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 1011010 10101 11110 10100 1101 00101101100 1111011 010010 110010001 0111 01010111 111111 1110010 01010111 1101011011 11100010 1101111110 11010 1001010 10100010 111101010 111010010 1001011 101111001010 0101011101 1101010111 11101001 11111110101 11101001 00010010011010 010100010 111100 01001 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; your, gems, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart is repeated).

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  • summary of God;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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