This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To Light that begins with:
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst come
From the old Negro's darksome womb!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd eeff ffgg cccc ggff ffhh ddcc ggbb iijj aaff kkff bbll bbff kkmm bbff aaXX mXXX XXii mmii kkff bbdd jjff ffbb mXllXffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 00110101 11010101 010101111111 1101011111 11011101 110100011 1101011100111 1101010111 01010011 10110111 101101010111 1011010001 1111101 101101111 01110111100101 1101010001 11110101 11010101 0111010101001 1111110011 11010110 10110101 110101111111 10011100111 11110101 11011011 01010011101001 11001111101 01110101 11110111 010100010111 1011110111 01010001 10110101 110011010001 1101001111 11010101 01110001 111101001101 001101101001 01010101 101100011 0100101010101 0101011001 11001101 100111001 110111011011 1101010101 01011101 11011101 010101010011 1101010111 11110101 01010101 001101110001 10101000101 10011001 01010101 0101011101010 11011111001 10010101 11010111 110101010101 01110101001 010100001 10011000 110101110100 10110010111 011100100 10111010 110101011111 0101000111 01010111 0101011 111001011101 0100110101 10110101 10110111 110001110101 0101110101 11010001 10011001 1010101110011 1101111101 10110001 11110001 011101111101 0101010101 11111101 11110110 1111011101001 10110101111 11011101 10110111 101101101101 1111011101 101101100 11010111 010101011101 1011000101 001001011 110110101 011111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy, as, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same words thou, at, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Hymn To Light;
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