This is an analysis of the poem When At Thy Footstool, Lord, I Bend that begins with:

When at Thy footstool, Lord, I bend,
And plead with Thee for mercy there,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea abab fefe gdgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 11011101 10010101 11010111 11101111 11010101 10011101 11111101 11111111 010010011 11110101 11010111 11011101 110010101 11110101 11110001 11101111 11001101 10110111 11010111 11111111 11110100 01111101 01111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, my, and, thine are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thine, behold are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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