This is an analysis of the poem Miracles that begins with:
WHY! who makes much of a miracle?
As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdebXXefXbfggXgbdXhXcXhbh aadiicib Xhif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100 1011101011100 1011010010 111110010100101 1101010101100100 10 11101001 111101011111001110 10111 111101100110 11110100110001 1110110010100101001 110010001 11101000011001 101000001110110110 11 10100100110011001 1101101111111111 0101010 1010101000110010 1101110101000100 10110111 101000100011110011 10 10101101011001001 1111110001 1001111101100 0101011011001 01100100011100100 1001010100100 1001100100010100 1 10010001001001 1001010111001110 111010 11011100001100 01010001001001 010110101000101 0100 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, or, with, in, at, and, every are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, every are repeated.
The author used the same word to 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 miracle, same are repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
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