This is an analysis of the poem Test Of My Faith To Face All Demons that begins with:
When I took my first steps into the wilderness,
I too had been accused of abandonment....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb D cecXX Dc XfX fg ccX f gX fXb XaXaXX EH XX Xec XXXEH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,5,2,3,2,3,1,2,3,6,2,2,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111000100 11100100100 0111 01001101001 010110010 11110011110 111011101100 1101000011 011010110111 1101111010 110100100010 11110011110 001001101110 1 1011 111100111 1101010111 11 1101101110100 1011011010 11111100 11111000011 111 110111111 0 010 1011110111101 111110111 110010100100100 11101011 111101101100 11100101 1010011111 11 11010110101001 1 01011110000 111110 1101 100101101110 1 01011110000 11 11010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, i, and, god, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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