This is an analysis of the poem Of The Love Of Christ that begins with:

The love of Christ, poor I! may touch upon;
But 'tis unsearchable. O! there is none... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefgfffgbbccbbhhaafXeefgiijikkiiiijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111101 111001101 010101101 1101011011 111100111 1101011111 111010011 111111101 1011011101 1001000101 0101011100 1110110111 00010101010 11110101010 1001010100 0111000101 1101010011 1001110101 1110110111 1111111101 1101010110 101101110 110111001 1001110101 0111011111 1101100110 0101110100 0100011101 1010010111 1101111011 1011101100 1111111111 1111011101 1101110101 1111010101 0111110100 111101001 0101111011 1001010001 1011011101 111101011 1101001101 1100010011 0001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1815
  • Average number of words per stanza: 351
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; his, he, and, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

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