This is an analysis of the poem Providence that begins with:
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end
Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aXac dbdb bebe ffff gcgc bhbh ifif fbfb XhXh jkjk acac baba bXbl fhfh amam cfdf lklk lclc XlXl dddd bebe nana lclc olol baba afaX anan bcbc alaX pfpf ffff hXjX bdbd bcbc jqjq XccdXqlql
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010101 1011010111 1101111101 0111111111 0101010111 100011111110 1101010001 111100011 111111011 1101011101 0101111111 1101111111 1001111101 0101111101 1001010101 11011111111 1101111101 1101100101 1101011111 1101010101 0111110111 0101011101 0111110111 0101100101 100110101101 1111110101 1100111101 0101000101 11010111011 0001010101 1111011101 1111101111 11010111010 1111111111 01110111010 01011010111 1001011110 1001111111 1101010111 1111110100 11011111010 1101110111 11011101110 1111000111 1011011111 11011101110 1111011111 10111101110 1101010101 1111111101 1111010111 0111011111 1010010101 1111011110 1101010101 101111111 1101111101 1101100111 1101011110 1111110101 1101010100 010111010110 1111010111 11111111010 1111111101 11010110101 1111011101 11010111101 1101110111 1101011111 01111110111 1111111101 110101001 11001010111 0101111111 110111010 101111011010 010101001 1011111110 1111011101 1111011101 1101011101 1101100111 1101111101 1101110101 1101110111 1111010011 0111110101 0111010100 01010100101 0111110100 1111110101 1111011101 11001010011 0111010101 0101010101 1111001101 0101111101 1111011101 0101010101 1011011011 011101011001 1011011011 0101101101 1101010111 0111111101 1110111111 0010110101 1011111011 11010101010 1101010101 11001110010 1111110101 11110111010 1111011101 01110101010 11111101101 1101110101 1111110001 1111001110 1111011111 01011111010 111101001 10011110010 0111011101 01110100101 0101110111 1101110101 1111011111 1111010101 01011111000 0101110111 1101111001 1101111101 1101111111 101111111 0111111011 0111011101 11110101011 1111011100111 11110111110 11101111110 11111111110 110111001110 11111111010 1011010101 0101111111 01110101001 1110110111 01111101001 0101111111 10010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, their, doth, but, thy, in, thou, art, as, by, that, he, with, without, nothing, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, when, but, sometimes, most are repeated.
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- summary of Providence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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