This is an analysis of the poem When I Trust that begins with:
When I trust,
I do not question with doubts of that trust....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXXXaXAaXabXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1111001011 11101010010 11101001001 0100010110111 01010101 10011101110101 111 1101010010101111 10110011001110 11111110 01110100100010 100110101010111 0111 100110100111 11010010000111 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 708
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines trust is repeated).
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