This is an analysis of the poem Jesus, Do I Love Thee? that begins with:
Jesus, do I love Thee?
Thou art far above me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbaaXaaaabbbbXXaaccddeeccaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 111011 10101 101001 01101 101011 101011 101110 101011 11111 101011 101011 11101 1111 10101 01101 1111100 1101010 1111101 1111011 110101 1100001 1101010 1101110 111111 111111 111101 111110 1111111 1111011 0111101 1111011 1101001 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 924
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, me are repeated).
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