This is an analysis of the poem The Rebel's Surrender To Grace (Lord, What Wilt Thou Have Me To Do?) that begins with:
Lord, thou hast won, at length I yield,
My heart, by mighty grace compelled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadeed aafaaf gghaah hhbdab cchiih jjakka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11110101 010101 01110111 11110111 110101 11011111 11011101 110111 10110101 11111111 110101 11111101 11110101 110111 11110101 11110101 110101 01111101 11010111 111100 11011101 01010111 111111 11110101 11010011 111111 01010101 11110101 000111 10010111 111101011 010101 11111111 11010011 111101 11100101 11011011 111101 10111111 01110111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; thy, i, my are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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