This is an analysis of the poem Hymn: Ye Are The Salt Of The Earth that begins with:
Salt of the earth, ye virtuous few,
Who season human-kind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdXd XbebXfbfgbhbdeie ebibjbebgkkkagig hfjfddXdddjXXgdgXbfbiece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,16,24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001 110101 10011101 1000101 110010101 110101 01110110 110101 11010101 110111 10011101 010101 11010101 110111 11011101 1101001 11010101 010101 10111101 110101 11010101 110101 10011101 111101 100110101 0100101 11010101 1100101 10010101 010101 11110111 011101 11110101 110101 10010101 110101 01011101 011111 01111101 010101 101010101 1100101 01110111 110101 101111001 011111 11010101 0100101 110111001 010101 11110101 0101011 0100111001 110111 11111101 110101 11101001 110111 110010111 010101 01110101 1100101 11010011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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