This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 19 that begins with:
The song of Simeon; or, Death made desirable.
Luke 2:27ff ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bcbc Xded dede XeXX fefe gaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011101000 11 11110101 1101001 11011101 111101 01011101 001111 11000101 110101 1011101011 1001101 11110101 111101 100010101 010111 11010111 0111010 10010011 110101 11111101 010011 11111111 111101 010100111 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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.
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- summary of Hymn 19;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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