This is an analysis of the poem A Hymn To Christ At The Author's Last Going Into Germany that begins with:
In what torn ship soever I embark,
That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddddeefe ggeedXXdXggddffcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110101 1110110011 111010111 1001110011 1101010101 1111111111 11110101 110001 1101010101 1111111111 1111111011 1111011111 1011110101 0100110111 111110101 011111 1111010101 010000101001 1111111011 1101111101 1111010111 1111011100 10111111 011111 1101010101 1111010101 1011101100 1111110001 1011111111 0111011101 10110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, i, thou, not are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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