This is an analysis of the poem Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken that begins with:
Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.
Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbaa ddaa eebX eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111101011101 101010101011110 1010010101111111 1110101011101111 101011111111101 101110111111001 111110111010111 111110111111101 111011101010111 011010100110101 111110101111111 111111101111001 111010111111011 1010111110011101 111010111110101 111010110110101 111110101111111 1010100101010111 111010111010101 1010101110101110 111010101111111 1001010111111111 111110101111101 111010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, my, and, me, to, what, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
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