This is an analysis of the poem A Thanksgiving that begins with:
Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign voice
First quicken'd love divine; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aaaa cXcX dede afaf dgdg ffff hXhX ieie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011101 110101 11111111 110101 11111100 011111 110101101 111111 1001010010 111101 101101010 1101011 10011011 10010011 11010101 010111 110100101 111101 11011111 0110001 11111111 111101 110100001 1101001 11010101 110011 11100111 110101 11110101 111111 10010100 0111011 01111101 0101011 11010101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word blessings at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Thanksgiving;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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