This is an analysis of the poem We Are The Choice Of The Will that begins with:
We are the Choice of the Will: God, when He gave the word
That called us into line, set in our hand a sword;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff XXg hh aa gg gag ii hh jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000111101 111001101101 110101111111 11110010010001 111110100101 11001110100001 1011010101001 111000111100101 1010101001110 10001101000110 1110111110101 1110011110111 11010010010110 10 0101001010011 110101100101 100101000100101 101001011001001 10100101011111 101100110100101 101010010101 10100101001000010 101001010010011 10 11111110101111 10101101100101 101010011111101 101011010100111 1010001011111 0111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, us, we, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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