My Thankfull Heart With Glorying Tongue by Anne Bradstreet: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Thankfull Heart With Glorying Tongue that begins with:

My thankfull heart with glorying Tongue
Shall celebrate thy Name,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaabXcXcdXdbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110111 110101100 010111 11110111 111100 10111101 111101 11110111 110111 110100111 110110 110100111 110111 11010010 111101 01111101 111101 11101101 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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