This is an analysis of the poem Meditation Before Sacrament that begins with:
Arise my soul & hast away
Thy god doth call & canst thou stay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffeXggaaaeehhbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 1111111 10010101 01010001 11010111 0111100 01111101 11100111 110100101 11011001 01001001 010111011 11110101 11110001 11010101 0110110 11110111 11110101 01111111 01110111 11110000 1111011 0100111 011111001 11110101 1111101101 1101000011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 904
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; feast, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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