This is an analysis of the poem In War-Time: An Aspiration Of The Spirit that begins with:

Lord Jesus, as a little child,
Upon some high ascension day... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc eaae fccf gffg aXaA Haab acca fddf baab iddi fjjf bkkb aXXa bllb eaae fddf gffg aXaA Haab ikki daad aiia Xbba bffb lbbl djjd daad jllj jiij geeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01110101 10110101 01010101 11010111 010010101 11000101 01010001 10010001 01010101 11000101 01001101 11100101 11100101 01011101 10011101 10011111 11100101 10010101 01111101 11011111 11110011 01000101 11101001 110100100 11111101 0100001001 11111111 11011101 01010111 01110101 01010100 11010001 01011101 110010111 01011101 11110101 110101000 111001001 110001001 10011101 01000101 11110001 11110101 01110101 010101001 11000101 11011101 11110101 01010111 11010111 01110011 11010101 010111001 01011101 11110001 11110101 10010111 01000111 01011101 10010111 11010101 11000101 11001101 100011111 11111111 11011111 01110101 11001111 11000101 11000101 01111101 11111111 11110111 11110001 11101001 110100100 11111101 0100011001 11111111 11110111 01011111 11011111 1111011 11111101 11110101 110111011 11011101 01010111 011100101 11011111 10110101 11110110 11110101 01010101 01010101 11110111 11110111 11110101 11010101 111111001 01010101 01010101 11110101 01010101 11110100 11100101 10110110 11111111 01011101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11110001 01000011 11011111 11010011 01010101 00111101 11010101 010011111 11110101 110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 154
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, with, nor, knowest, thou, enough are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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