This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 166 that begins with:
The Divine Perfections.
How shall I praise th' eternal God,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd eaea fgfg Xccc ghXh babaXfafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001100 111110101 110001 11010101 110101 01010011 0101001 10110101 010001 11011101 010101 01000101 111111 11010101 011001 10000101 110001 11111001 110001 11010101 010100 10010101 110001 01010100 1101001 10010101 010101 11010101 100101 10110101 110101 11010101 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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- summary of Hymn 166;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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