This is an analysis of the poem Clasping Of Hands that begins with:

LORD, Thou art mine, and I am Thine,
If mine I am; and Thine much more ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaBabaaXababaBabaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 01111111 11111101 10011101 11011111 10010101 101011001 11011101 01011101 11010111 11111111 11111101 11011111 11110001 11111001 10010101 11011101 11111101 10111111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mine, i, thine, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word lord at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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