This is an analysis of the poem A Spiritual Song, Concerning Our Holy Baptism, Wherein Is Briefly, Who Has Instituted, Whereto It Serves &C. that begins with:
To Jordan when our Lord had gone,
His Father's pleasure willing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXX dedefefXX gagaagaXh hahahghgi ciciaeaej chcXiiiij gXgXkgkXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 0101010 110100011 0111010 01100101 01101000 11011101 0010100 1111011 11111101 01000010 11110101 10110010 10011101 0111010 01010101 01011000 1001100 01011101 0101010 01011101 1101010 11001111 01111010 011111001 11111111 1101110 10110111 0101010 11010101 0111110 11011101 111101 10110101 110101 0110101 10010111 1011010 11011011 1110010 01100111 1101110 011010111 1111010 0101010 11001111 0101110 10010101 1101100 10100100 1111010 10100101 0111010 1101110 01110101 1011010 110101001 0101110 11010111 0111110 110100111 1001010 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 63
- 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; his, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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