This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 155 that begins with:
Christ our passover.
Lo, the destroying angel flies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab XcXc bdbd ececXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 10010101 010101 011100101 100101 110101010 110101 110111001 110101 10010111 0100101 11000101 1100101 10110101 011111 10110101 010101 10111011 111101 10010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Hymn 155;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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