This is an analysis of the poem Folks Who Make Claims To Be Christians that begins with:

Why are there some who say,
They believe in God....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdefgchcbcfbaX hchcghhc X cXXcedfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 10101 101 110110 1111 111101 0110110010010 1001100 111111 0101110 0010101010 1 10101010 11101111100 111111111001 11 111001011 11101 1110010 1101 1011110 1101 1111111 01101011101 101110011010 10010101 101 110 11111001010 11111 01111011 1001101 11110 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; they, to are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Folks Who Make Claims To Be Christians;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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