This is an analysis of the poem Upon My Dear And Loving Husband His Going Into England Jan. 16, 1661 that begins with:

O thou Most High who rulest all
And hear'st the prayers of thine, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb Xddd cece dfgf achc cfXf Xiji dkgk hckX jlfl bfif ifXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 110101 11011011 110101 00110101010 1011101 1101110 111 11011111 111111 11110101 111011 01110111 111111 11111111 111101 100100010 110001 01110101 110100 10001101 011101 111111010 101101 10110001 1101001 01110101 110101 10111101 111001 11001101 111011 01011111 010011 11110100 010111 11001101 011111 11111101 0101001 11111101 111101 11010111 010101 10010011 110100 0101101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.

    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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