This is an analysis of the poem Hymn 55 that begins with:
Hezekiah's song; or, Sickness and recovery.
Isa. 38:9ff. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X abcb XdXd accX adcd ecec fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010100 101 11110101 110101 11010011 01001 010001001 110101 01110101 010101 100111101 110101 101111111 0100110 11000101 110111 01000101 010101 01010101 110101 10110101 111001 01010111 111101 11110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, he are repeated.
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- summary of Hymn 55;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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