Analysis of Promise
There is a rainbow in the sky,
Upon the arch where tempests trod;
God wrote it ere the world was dry--
It is the autograph of God.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101001 0101111 11110111 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 135 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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