This is an analysis of the poem Hymn: Thou Hidden Love Of God that begins with:
Thou hidden love of God, whose height,
Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc acacff ghghcc ceXecc ahahcc gigiee cdcdjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111000111 11011101 10111101 11011100 11101101 11010111 01001101 11111110 11111101 11001101 11111011 11011111 11010101 11111111 11110111 11111101 11110111 01010101 11011101 11011101 01010101 11110101 10110101 11010111 11110111 11010101 11110101 01110111 100101111 11110101 01101101 10101111 11010101 11110111 10110101 11101101 11010111 11011101 11110101 11111101 00111011 11010101 11110111 10110111 11111111 011100111 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; yet, my, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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