This is an analysis of the poem A Credo that begins with:
I.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabBBccdeEEX X ffggghhaeEEX X XdhHHaXXeEEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,12,1,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110010 00101010 1010111 1010101 1010101 00101110 10101110 101101 11110101 11010101 11111011 10010111 1 11101010 10101010 1110101 1010111 1010111 11101010 1000111 010111 11110101 11010101 11111011 10010111 1 10100110 11011111 0110111 10111001 10111001 10101010 00101000 1010100 10111101 11010101 11111011 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sang, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i'd are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chant, sang, loved, heterodox are repeated).
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