This is an analysis of the poem God that begins with:
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips, I ascended the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, 'Master, I am thy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X a X a X a X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101101100110111010010101110110101111110001111101111010 1111101101010101 110010010100101010111011010111010101111011011111 1111101101011101 110010011010101110101101011110101111101111111011010110 11111011011101011101 11001001101010101110110111111100111101111101111110011111100011010110101001 111101101110101011010111000111010011001 111010001010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 148 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 29
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, god, thy, my, in, me, thou, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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