This is an analysis of the poem Love's Service that begins with:

Your presence is a psalm of praise,
And as its measure grandly rings... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcdee eXeXff adadbb gfgfhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11000101 11010101 11011111 0110101 11011111 11010111 11110101 10010101 01011111 00010101 11110111 10110111 11110101 11110111 01010111 11110110 11111101 11001101 01110101 11111101 01110001 11111111 11110011 11111111 01010011 11011101 11111101 01111101 11011101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; i, all, and, me are repeated.

    The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Love's Service;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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