This is an analysis of the poem Tenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:

Why doth my Saviour weep
At sight of Sion's bowers?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dcdcefef ghghdidX bbbbhjhj jijieXeXXacacecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 110110 10110101 0101010 110101 110111 11010101 010101 001101 0100101 01111111 110101 111101 100011 11100101 0001001 111101 010001 01010101 1100101 111111 011110 01110101 110100 001111 110101 101100111 110111 110111 010111 01010101 000101 10111101 110011 01001111 111101 111111 1111001 11110001 1101110 110101 100101 01101111 011101 111101 010111 11010101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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, thy, ye, in are repeated.

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

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