This is an analysis of the poem Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild that begins with:
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccdd aacc ddee bbaa ccaa XXee ffgd hhccXggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010101 1010100 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 0010011 1110111 1101101 1110111 1111101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111111 1011101 1110100 1110111 1110101 1110111 11101001 1110011 1111101 1101110 11100100 1000101 1000101 1110101 1110111 1101101 1111100 1010101 0110111 1110111 1100111 1111111 1111101 1011111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; me, thou, didst are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, thou are repeated.
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