This is an analysis of the poem O God! Thou Art My God Alone; that begins with:
O God! Thou art my God alone;
Early to Thee my soul shall cry;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fefe gbgbXcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 10011111 01000101 010110111 11001010 11000101 110110111 11011011 11011101 11011111 11010111 11011111 10010001 11010111 11010101 110011111 10110111 10110101 111101001 11110101 10111111 11110101 11110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, thy, my are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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