This is an analysis of the poem Draxy's Hymn that begins with:
I cannot think but God must know
About the thing I long for so;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccaXddcc eeffbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 01011111 11101011 11011101 11011101 10011111 11110111 01110111 11111111 00010101 11011111 11110111 01010111 11111111 11111111 01111111 10111011 1111101 11110101 11111111 11010111 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, so, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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