Poem Analysis of Ode To Charity by Hannah More for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Charity that begins with:

O Charity, divinely wise,
Thou meek-ey'd Daughter of the skies... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaacXbb ddeeffbbgghh eeiibbbbccaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11000101 11110001 0011000101 1101001101 0100101 11001101 01010101 10011001 111101010 1011010100 1111010101 0111010111 010100101 110001101 1111011001 1101110101 11010111 11011101 11110101 11011101 1001010101 1111110001 1101110101 1101001101 11010101 01100001 01111001101 1111110011 11110101 1111001011 10110101 11110001 0111010101 01111101101 1011000101 1101011101
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
Average number of words per stanza: 79
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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