This is an analysis of the poem The Miracle that begins with:
Up from the templed city of the Jews,
The road ran straight and white...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac daeX fbfb bbgb hijk haaX eHlH lmam ambm dnjn mibk ifmf fflX eidX hobo bmem nXiX heXe gjhj ohdh ebbb fnbn bngn bhdh aebe mada jjbj XeHlH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001010001 011111 0101010001 010001 111101101 010111 1101110001 110101 1101110111 110101 1011111101 101100 1101110111 111101 1001111101 010111 11001011011 101111 01010101001 101101 1011111011 110011 0101010100 111101 110010111 110101 1101111111 101100 110000111 110011 1011011101 111101 110000101 111111 1101110101 111111 1101000111 010101 1101011001 111101 1101010111 101111 1101110111 110111 10010101101 010111 010001001001 110101 1101010111 110101 110011101 110111 1111111111 111111 1101011101 110101 1101011101 010111 1001010001 100101 1011010101 110101 1101110101 101101 1101110001 101111 110011001 011111 0101010011 010100 0101010101 110011 1101110101 101111 1101110100 110101 1101111101 1011001 01010101010 111101 1101101001 111101 1011110111 010101 01010100101 011001 01011101001 010001 0111010101 100110 01101011011 111101 0111010011 010101 0111010101 101101 10101001001 011111 1001010011 011111 1101011101 000101 0101010101 110111 1101001101 110001 1001111111 011101 11010011001 100111 1101011001 111101 110000111 110011 1010111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; city, of, and, he, comes, to, cry, his, light are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, what, the are repeated.
The author used the same words blind, he, 'he, what, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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