This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 44 that begins with:

Hell; or, The vengeance of God.
With holy fear and humble song,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbX dcec dddd dddd fafa gege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001 01011101 01011101 10110101 110100010 10011101 01010101 10110101 11010101 01011101 110111001 111010101 1001011 11001101 11110101 01010101 10010111 11010101 11110111 11110101 11110101 10111101 10010101 11010101 111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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 there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Hymn 44;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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