This is an analysis of the poem My Childhood God that begins with:

When I was small the Lord appeared
Unto my mental eye...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaaa cbcbdede XdXdfgfgXadadebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 101101 01010001 111001 11110101 110001 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 11110101 011101 11101111 111101 11110101 010001 01110110 110101 01010011 110101 11010101 101101 01000101 011101 01010111 010101 01010110 010011 11110111 110101 11111101 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of My Childhood God;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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