This is an analysis of the poem Ask What I Shall Give Thee (I) that begins with:
Come, my soul, thy suit prepare,
Jesus loves to answer prayer;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ffee ggaa aahh iijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1010101 1011111 1101111 1110001 1010011 1011111 1110111 0110101 1010101 1111101 1110101 1110111 1010011 1111101 1010101 1010001 1001001 1101101 1110101 1110101 1111101 1111111 1101101 1111101 100101101 1110101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
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