This is an analysis of the poem Poetry And Religion that begins with:
Religions are poems. They concert
our daylight and dreaming mind, our...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cXc dad daa dbc ddb cbcXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110110 11111011 01010111010 00010110100 101101101 11011100110 010010101010 10101011101 0111111001010 1010001100101010 1101001000100101 0111111001011 11101110101 111110000110 1010110100 11001100010 11001001010010 11010110010 11010100011100 000100101010 1011001001110100 10100111011010 1010011101001010 110111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; it, in, caught are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines religion is repeated).
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