This is an analysis of the poem When My Soul Longed - The Beginning Of His Journey that begins with:

That day when my soul longed for the place of assembly,
Yet a dread of departure seized hold of me,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010010 10100101101 11010011111101 111010110100 111110111001 111001111 010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, for are repeated.

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