This is an analysis of the poem Matter For Gratitude that begins with:
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanks
That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddee ffccggggXhh eeeeiijjcceekkii iill
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,16,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 1101011111 1111001101 1111010101 1001000101 111111101 1101010101 1111000101 11011110101 0101110101 1111110101 0101011101 1001010010 01010100101 1011010101 0111010110 1101000111 1101011101 1101011001 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 0111110101 1111010111 0101110101 1011110101 1101110101 1011000101 1101010101 1101111111 1101011101 1111110101 1110010101 1101010001 1101010111 10011101010 01001101010 1101010101 1110110111 1101010111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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; our, and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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- summary of Matter For Gratitude;
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