This is an analysis of the poem O, This Is Blessing, This Is Rest that begins with:
O, this is blessing, this is rest
Unto Thine arms, O Lord, I flee:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcddaa aeaeeaXaeebb dfdffefeggbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010001 10111111 11101101 11111101 10011001 11110101 11111111 01000101 110100011 10011101 10110101 11010111 11110111 11010101 01010101 01111111 10011101 10010111 11010101 101110111 11001101 11110101 11111111 11010101 111101001 01111101 11001101 11111001 10011111 10110111 11111111 01010101 11011111 11011111 11010111 11101111 00010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, still, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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