Poem Analysis of Good Friday by John Keble for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Good Friday that begins with:

Is it not strange, the darkest hour
That ever dawned on sinful earth... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababcc cXcXdd efefgg hihiee cccchh ididjj kikiff fifXll jfjfddXdgdgii
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 001101010 11011101 110101010 11011101 1001010111 1011010101 10110101 110011101 10110101 101010100100 1011010101 010100011101 11001101 01010111 11010101 10010111 1101011101 1101010111 11011101 110000101 110100111 11011101 11010110111 1111010111 11010101 110100101 111101101 010100111 1011011101 110101110110 0110111 01011001 01110001 01010111 1101111101 110110111101 11110101 010011101 10110100 11010101 11001010101 1111110111 110101001 11010101 11011101 111101100 1101010101 1111101101 10111111 11111101 11111101 11011111 0111011101 110111101 11111101 11111101 11111111 111111001 0111101101 110101111111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 60
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sooner, or, his, that are repeated.

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