This is an analysis of the poem Hymns Of The Brahmo Somaj that begins with:

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The mercy, O Eternal One!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbccaca XababcXcdefef XedfdbcacghXhXfgfeefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01010101 1110001 01110111 110001 11011101 011101 11111111 110101 1 11111111 0100110 11010101 11101010 11010111 111110 01000101 110011 110010100 111101 10110111 010001 1 110100111 111101 1010101001 1101001 110101101 10100101 1111001001 1010111 101000101 111101 1010101101 1011111 111010111 1101111 010101101 10101001 1101101001 111101 111110101 00100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; my, we, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, and are repeated.

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