This is an analysis of the poem A Serious And Pathetical Contemplation Of The Mercies Of God that begins with:
For all the mysteries, engines, instruments, wherewith the world is filled, which we are able to frame and use to thy glory.
For all the trades,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b XccccddbdefaafXbg heidhhhddhheedcbXigddhddhjjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,17,28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001010010001011111001110110 11010100010101010110100101000101010101110100010100101 1110101 1100010 1101 1101010001010 10100110 01110 11110100010 110000010101001 001100 01101 01010010 001010 0010101100 01111 010100101 110101 1101 1100 00110 11011011111 11110101101011 100 110100 100 100 100 10010010 100100 01100 10010 11110 01100010 1101 11111 1110111 010001 01101010 1101101 1111 01111 101010 1010010101001 1110 11111101011 1110011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, that are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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