This is an analysis of the poem At Morning that begins with:
O Lord, my life was known to Thee
Ere Thou had’st caused me yet to be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX aXa bbb cccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11111100 11010101 11111111 01011001 111101100 11010111 11101110 00110001 110101101 11111101 01011101 11111101 10110001 01111100 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; thy is repeated.
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