This is an analysis of the poem God Hides His People that begins with:
To lay the soul that loves him low,
Becomes the Only–wise:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cdcd Xbcb efef bgbg hghg hbhb Xeie ijij kckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 010100 01010101 010001 11011101 110111 01110101 110011 100111100 010101 11010101 110111 11010101 011101 010000101 110001 11000111 010011 11011101 010001 10110100 111101 11110011 110101 11010101 011101 10011001 110111 11010100 001101 110010101 010101 11010001 111101 01011101 110101 11011101 100101 11111101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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