This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield that begins with:
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne,
Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeeffggeeXXaahhbbcciiccjjcXddaakkggeeXga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 1001011101 1111010011 1101000101 11001000101 1101000101 1101010001 0101110101 0101010101 11001110111 0101000101 11011110001 1101011011 1111010101 1101011101 1111110101 1101001101 1111110101 1111000111 1111010111 1101010010 1101110101 1011001101 1101010101 0101110111 1101000101 1101010101 10111011100 10111010111 1101001101 1101111101 10111010011 1101101101 10111001111 10001000101 100001000101 101011111010 1101010001 1111001101 1101010101 1111001101 1101010101 1111010101 11111010101 1101001101 1011010101 1101110001 01001000110111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1107
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, take, ye, him, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, he, take, ye are repeated.
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