This is an analysis of On The Truth Of The Saviour by George Moses Horton.
E'en John the Baptist did not know
Who Christ the Lord could be,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece bfbf ghgh gege ihih XeXe jbjb keke
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101010011 110110 11010101 010101 11110101 110101 01010101 101101 00010101 111101 01010111 011111 00010111 011001 10100101 110101 10011101 100111 100111001 010101 00010111 110101 10011101 1101001 10010101 110101 11011111 110101 10010101 111101 10100101 110101 01011001 110101 11110101 111111 00010101 0101110 11010101 1101010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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