This is an analysis of the poem Christ At The Bar that begins with:
Christ stands at the bar of the world to-day,
As He stood in the days of old.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABab XcXc daddX XeXe ABaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 11100101 11111101 111101 1110011111 1110001 11110101 110101 1010100101 1100101 11110101 11010110 1011101 101011101 1011101 0011110111 1011111 1110100101 11100101 11110111 11011101 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and, his, we are repeated.
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