This is an analysis of the poem My Heart Is Resting, O My Lord that begins with:
My heart is resting, O my God—
I will give thanks and sing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcBadad Xefeghch aihijjij fhjhgiki lclcfjkj chehhjaj amXMjcac ihdhfnXn lbcBjhah fjhjjlalXAmgMdjij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 101111 11010101 0100101 10110111 111111 101000111 111101 1110101001 111111 11010011 111101 10110011 011101 10011101 111101 10011101 111101 101111011 110111 11010001 111111 101110101 010011 10010001 111111 01010101 100101 01100101 111111 11110001 110101 101111001 111111 101111111 011101 110100101 111101 01011101 111101 01111101 1001111 101010101 0010111 10011111 111101 01010101 010101 10010101 010011 110101010 010101 101000101 0100111 11010001 1100101 11010101 110101 01001011 111101 111011101 110111 1011100011 110111 101010101 0010111 111010101 0100101 01110011 011101 100110001 111101 1001001001 111111 001000101 111111 01100101 110111 11010101 110101 11010111 110011 11010111 010101 11110111 110101 101001101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; my, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, my are repeated.
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