This is an analysis of the poem Of Love To God that begins with:
When I do this begin to apprehend,
My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bend... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cd ee ee ff aa gg dd ee aa aa gg Xg hi gg gg gg ff aa dd aa ee cc ee jj cd kk dd ih aa gg aa gg cc ll ee ff cX ll Xg aa ff kk kk hh kk ggXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110010101 1111110101 0111010101 0101010101 0100010101 110111111 1011110101 0101111101 1111000101 0101111001 011111111 1011010101 1101010101 1111110110 0111101101 1101110101 0101011111 1110010100 0101101101 0100011111 1101010001 1101010001 0101111101 1111010101 0101111101 1100011101 1101011000 0111110101 1100010101 0101011100 1101111111 0101000111 0101011101 1101011111 0101010001 11001101001 1101010101 1111110001 1101010101 1111010111 1111111100 1001111101 01001010101 1101001101 11010101101 1111110101 0101010101 1101001101 110101110 0101110100 1111011111 1101010101 1111010101 0111000101 1101000100 1011100100 1101100101 0101110101 1111000100 0101010101 0100101010 0111010111 1101110001 0101010101 1111110001 1101010101 1100010111 1101011101 1110011101 1101010101 011001011 1100110101 1011010011 010001011 1101011111 0101000100 010101011 110101010 1101011001 0111111101 1000111110 1101110101 0011011111 0101010101 0101011111 0101011101 1100010100 0101010101 0101011001 0101001101 111111101 1101110100 110100010 0100010100 0111100111 1011100101 0101011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, and, now, in, this, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, doth, and, in are repeated.
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