This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Ii: Come, Sinners, To The Gospel Feast that begins with:
Come, sinners, to the gospel feast,
Let every soul be Jesu's guest;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xabb aabb ccbb eeff ccXX Xggg hhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 110010101 11110101 11110111 11111111 01010001 11011101 11011101 11111110 110100101 11111111 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010011 11011101 11011111 11111111 11110101 11111111 11010101 11110111 11011101 11010101 01010001 010010101 100110010 11011111 11110111 11010101 01010001 11010111 00011101 00001001 10010101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; all, and, ye, his, to, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, his, this are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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