This is an analysis of the poem Prayer Of St. Francis Xavier that begins with:
Thou art my God, sole object of my love;
Not for the hope of endless joys above;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddaa eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110011 1101010101 1101010101 1111111101 1111111101 11010010101 01011001101 1101010101 1101011011 011101111111 11110011101 1110110111 1111101101 1011011101 01100101001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, me, my, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word such is 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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