This is an analysis of the poem For the Old Gnostics that begins with:
The Fathers put their trust in the end of the world
And they were wrong. The Gnostics were right and not ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111001001 11010100111 11010101101 1100110101 10100110010 101101010 1010100111 010001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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