This is an analysis of the poem When The Rain Is On The Roof that begins with:
Lord, I am poor, and know not how to speak,
But since Thou art so great,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc ddefbXggeeddd higjegcfgkflegmnfgeaoXejfffbbpbjbeghqXandcpedofdrbgdnpjpkkbgbbdpigngXbpglhafpdggdrdegabemkelelseesggddpgadbjhge enekdgbnnogehXgegddfgpXgijgifkacnggnnefabfabggbcdbckjjdgpebendadgcfdgXXeegg ggXgXegdgkspgbfhfjg besgbgmqjeX Xjrodrbde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,111,75,19,11,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 111111 11011111011 11011011 1111111101 1111010111 11111101001 1011010111 1111101001 01010111110 01110010101 11110100111 1111 1101011111 11011111010 10110101111 111101 1111010011 1110001101 10110101010 0100110100 1011010101 0101011110 1111110101 1101010101 10110101111 11010110111 11011110111 1100110011 11010101011 1101110101 01000010011 01011101010 0101110101 00010011010 1111100111 0101011111 1101110001 1001010101 1111100111 0111010101 10010010011 0101010001 11000100110 1101001111 1101110001 1111010101 1100010001 01111100001 11111111010 1111011101 1011011011 0111011111 1011110011 1101010101 010110111 01000100010 0101100101 1111111101 1101110101 01110011110 11111101010 1110010011 0101111101 1101110111 1100010101 1011000111 0101011101 11010101101 100100111010 1011000100 11001010101 1011110101 1101011011 1101010001 1101000101 1111010011 11111111010 1001001111 0101011011 1111100001 1011111101 1101110101 0110010011010 1111100101 11010101110 1111010111 0101001101 0111010101 1101110001 1100110001 1101111101 1101010101 0101010001 0101010100 1111010111 0111101011 1101011101 1001110001 111011101001 1011001101 1001011111 0100100101 1111010101 111111011111 1011011001 1111111111 1111011111 0101110100 1110111111 1001010101 1011010011 1111011111 0100111111 101101011100 101111110010 1101110011 0111000101 1001010101 1010001111 1001110101 1100011101 1101010111 1100110111 0101010111 11010101111 1110000001 011111 11011 11010100110 11001111011 1111100101 1001010101 1111110111 0111011101 11011111110 10111111010 1001101101 1001010101 1101011111 1111101111 0111011110 1111011101 0101010101 1111011111 11011101001 1101011101 0101110001 1011011011 01001101101 1100011011 10110111111 1110011101 1110010011 1001010101 1110111111 1111010011 1011110101 111111101 1010111101 11111111010 1000111111 110101101011 10111101010 1011001010 1111101011 0101010101 0100010101 1100010001 1101010101 1111010101 1100010011 1110111111 11110011101 11111101010 10101110101 011100111011 1101110101 0111010110 1011000101 1001100100 1111111101 1100110111 0111010111 0101010111 1011010101 1111110011 0101010111 01111101010 00101111010 1011011011 1111110111 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 1111010001 1111011111 11010010011 100110101011 0111011101 1101010101 1111110101 1111011111 1111011111 1011111111 1111011101 10110010011 1111111101 1110111101 110101010010 1011011111 1001011011 1111000101 0101111011 1101110101 1011010101 1011000101 1001010101 11011010001 1001011011 1101010101 10010011111 111111110 0111011111 11110001010 1101001111 1101111101 1111011101 011011111 0101110101 1101100111 01000110111 11111111110 11011111011 1110011111 1111111011 1011111101 0111010101 1111111111 1111011111 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1483
- Average number of words per stanza: 298
- Amount of lines: 247
- 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; speak, and, all, i, to, how, her, him, in, he, that, my, it, so, no, me, this, lord, of, lo, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, it, i, give, by are repeated.
The author used the same word lord 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 well, mine, god, mother are repeated).
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