This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 143 that begins with:

Characters of the children of God. From several scriptures.
So new-born babes desire the breast,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc adad ebeb ddda fgfg chcX ihih bdbd gggg fjXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100001001010010 111101001 011111 11010101 110101 01011101 110101 11011101 110111 11010111 110101 11011101 110001 11011101 111101 110100101 010100 11110001 011101 01010001 010101 11010001 110100 100101011 010110 1111110010 010101 110101010 111101 110111001 010101 01111101 110101 11111101 110101 11010011 011101 11110101 111101 1111101010 011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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