This is an analysis of the poem Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee that begins with:
Joyful, joyful we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love,
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, hail Thee as the sun above. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111010101 1011100111110101 101011101010101 100010101100101 111010111110111 111010111000101 111011101011101 101110101100101 111010101010101 110010101010101 111011101110111 111011101100101 101010101010101 1010101011011101 101011101000101 101011100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thee, and are repeated.
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