This is an analysis of the poem On The Bible that begins with:
Behold this little volume here inrolde:
'Tis the Almighty's present to the world:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbbcccXddeeXXffaXfX XceecXaX ggfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010110 1010001001 10111100111 0101010111 11010001110 01010111010 111101010 00101010 1101001101 0101011011 1110011111 0101011101 01010001001 1101011101 0101111010 0100110100 11110101101 0111111101 011100110101 0101010101 1101110111 110101000 0111011101 0110010001 11111101111 11101111011 0111111101 110001000 11101011111 110111010 1101010101 1111110101 1111000101 0100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; word, his, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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