This is an analysis of the poem An Address To The Deity that begins with:
God of my life! and author of my days!
Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddXe ffggaahh iijjhhffdd kkccllkkgg aajjccgg kkkkllff kkkkaaiiXc eXaakkXkkhhjjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,10,8,8,10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110011 0111010111 11001010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 110101001001 1101111101 1101010101 1101111101 1111110110 1111010111 1101010101 0101010111 1111010101 1111010101 11001010111 1111010011 1111010100 1111011101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1100010101 1111010111 1011010101 01010101011 1011010101 101101001001 1101010001 0111000101 0101010101 1101000101 1110100101 1101010111 0101110101 01010010111 11001110101 111111101 1111010101 0011010101 11010111001 1101010101 11010101001 1110011101 1100110101 0101110101 11000100101 0100010111 111110111 1111011101 1011001111 01011100101 0101110101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01010100101 1101010011 101100101001 01001110001 1101010101 01010100011 0101010101 010010111010 0101110001 1111001101 1111111110 1111011101 0101010011 0101010101 1111010001 11010101011 1101011101 11001010101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my, of, our, and, to, in, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, with, in, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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