This is an analysis of the poem I Didn'T Go To Church Today that begins with:
I didn't go to church today,
I trust the Lord to understand....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 01110111 01010101 11111111 110101010 11111111 111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, knows are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
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