This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 161 that begins with:
Christian virtues; or, The difficulty of conversion.
Strait is the way, the door is strait,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cccc deXe dXdb fafa gcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10101010000010 10010101 110111 11011101 110111 01011001 011001 10011101 1101001 100100101 100111 110101100 110111 01010101 110100 1100101001 011001 011101010 0100101 1101010010 111101 11010101 100111 11111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Hymn 161;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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