This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Judgement that begins with:

And there was silence in the House of Judgment, and the Man came
naked before God.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab c deXXffghhiX X c hXe fifaibXXXXhX X c jeghdhhiX X hX X jX c D hcX X XX XcXD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,11,1,1,3,12,1,1,9,1,2,1,2,1,1,3,1,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100010101011 10011 111001001001 111001111010111 1100011001010101 11111010110101 1011111101110 1001010100010000 100111101011110 100001001101111 0100101100010111 101100101011111 111110011111110 11111111001 1011101110101 10111001001001 11100111101010101 11111110011101 1110101100100100 10010110000111100 101111101000111 1011100111101010 1001101100001101 11001001101010110 111111110011 110000011111110 1011100100100011 1111111011101 111100010101010 0110010011110011 11001110 1011101110101 101111001001001 1110011010111010 11100101001001 1111111011111 110111101010101 10101111110111 111010111100111 11101111011101 1111011011111 111011011 1011101110101 11101001001111001 011001100010111 10111111 1110011001111101 11110 10011111101001 11110001010 110011111001111 11110011010111010 1010100111 10111111 1110011001111110 1011110 101010111101000101 1001 11110001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, man, god, to, didst, thou, their, with, stain, who, thee, hell, ', send, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thou are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, ', thee 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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