This is an analysis of the poem On The Still Surviving Marks Of Our Saviour's that begins with:
Whatever story of their cruelty,
Or nail, or thorn, or spear have writ in Thee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001100 1111111101 100101 1100 100100 1101 100110 0101 11010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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