This is an analysis of the poem Thoughts On The Works Of Providence that begins with:

A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
To praise the monarch of the earth and skies,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacdeeeeaaeeccffggaaeedXhhaacceeaaffeeaaaaaaiiaaaabbbbddeejjbXeeaaggeeccddeeddaakkaahXccaaeeaaaggccaXllmmeehhXXeeaXaaaaggddaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 131,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111111110101 0101100111 1101100001 1101010101 1101010101 1011000101 0101001101 0111110101 01011100101 1111001001 0111000101 1101010101 1001010101 0101110101 1101110111 010110101001 01011010001 11010010101 11010110101 1001110101 1101110101 0101000101 10011010101 01010011101 0100110101 1111011101 1111011101 11010101000 01010100101 1101110101 1101010101 11010000101 0101010111 0110010101 0111111101 1001110101 0110110111 11001010101 1100010101 1111000101 11011001011 0101010101 11110011101 1111010001 1101110101 1111010101 10101000101 0101010101 11010100101 0101110101 1111010101 1101000111 0101110101 01011110101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101111111 0101010001 11010100110 1101010101 0101010101 11011101010 010100001010 0101110101 11010101001 0111011101 1110110001 1101010101 1111010001 1101010011 0111110101 1110010101 1101000101 0101110101 11101000101 101010110001 1101110101 11010101101 0101010101 01110011001 1111010101 1101111101 1111100101 1101111101 1101010101 01010101001 1101010101 1011010101 0011110100 1101111101 0101010101 1111110101 11010001010 1101010101 1101110101 0111110111 1101011111 1111010001 1100111101 10001010101 1111101101 1101011101 0101010101 1010100101010 1101011101 0101010101 10101111101 10001010101 10001010001 10101110001 1111110100 10011010011 10010110011000 1101110110 10110011101 10101000111 10101110101 100010111100 1011110101 1101010001 10011001111 01010100101 0101010101 0101100101 0101011101 0101011101 0001110101 1101011101 0111100101 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5847
  • Average number of words per stanza: 991
  • Amount of lines: 131
  • 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; her, and, what, his, to, never, of, our, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, what, that, this are repeated.

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