This is an analysis of the poem Centennial Hymn that begins with:
I.
Our fathers' God! from out whose hand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacc Xccccdd Xeecccc XXbXdee aeeffbb agghhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111 010011101 11010101 11001111 01110101 111101001 1 11011101 01011101 11000101 01011101 01110101 01011111 1 00110111 01110101 01010101 11110101 11010001 01000111 1 111101110 01100101 01110110 01010000 11001101 11010101 1 11110101 11010101 11111011 00110101 01010111 01110111 1 111111001 01010101 01110101 01101101 11011001 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thee, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the are repeated.
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