This is an analysis of the poem Ask What I Shall Give Thee (Iii) that begins with:
Behold the throne of grace!
The promise calls me near;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec aaaa cccc fgfg hihiXgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 010111 11010101 110101 111001 110111 01111101 110101 111111 111011 10111111 111101 011111 011111 01011111 111101 110101 111101 11011101 111001 110101 110111 11011101 110101 110111 011001 110100001 110101 011101 111100 10011111 001111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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