This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Of Sovereign Grace that begins with:
Formed for thyself, and turned to thee,
Thy praises, Lord , I show;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defX ghfh Xchc caca gddd ceXe ibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 110111 11010101 111011 01001101 111111 11011101 111110 01010011 110111 11010101 110101 11011101 110001 11010101 110101 110010100 110101 11110101 110111 11010101 01110001 11110011 100101 10010111 111111 11010101 111111 11111111 111111 01111101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The author used the same word thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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