This is an analysis of the poem Evening Hymn that begins with:
O God, whose daylight leadeth down
Into the sunless way,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac bbbbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 000101 10010111 011001 11111101 010101 11011110 010101 11110101 111101 100111001 111111 11110101 111111 110010001 1100011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Evening Hymn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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