This is an analysis of the poem Hallelujah: A Sestina that begins with:
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.
I wonder they never gave it to a boy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdee eaebdc cedabe ecbead deaceb ddeecaXeca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101010 11011010001 11110111 0111110111 011111011110 10100101010 10011101010 10010101010 10010101010 1110011101 01011110101 1101111111 01110010101 110010111010 0111110101 1111111010 11010110101 101010101110 110111010010 111010101 0111000101 10111111010 110111111010 1011011111 11010011101 110101110010 11101111010 10110010101 111010111010 11010110101 01010111001 1101110101 101001001010 10111011110 11010111001 11000101010 10011001110 1001010101 110101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, and, that, stone, help are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word stone is repeated.
The author used the same word but 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 ebenezer, hair, praise are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hallelujah at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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