This is an analysis of the poem The Love Of God The End Of Life that begins with:
Since life in sorrow must be spent,
So be it--I am well content,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXaa ccdd ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10011110 11011101 1010101 11111010 01011100 11001111 1111101 11110111 11010101 11010111 1010011 10110101 11010101 1111101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; in, to, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, love are repeated.
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