This is an analysis of the poem If This Were Faith that begins with:
God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddee ffgghhiijjkklla abcckkjjhXhkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100001 11111001 110010010 11111110 1001 110101 11011 10001 10111011 110101 1011101 0100111 101001011 100101 110101 0101101 0011101 101101 0101 0100011101 01110011001 1101011010100 101001 001001001 1010010 1010110 111101010 10101001001001 1010010010111 010010101 0111101111101 101001101 101101001101 11001 00100101101011 11101001 10111001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word enough at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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