This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Vi: Sinners, Turn, Why Will Ye Die? that begins with:
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Maker, asks you why?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccaa Aabbddaa Aabbbbaa ddXXddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 1110111 1101101 1100101 1010101 1010011 1110101 0110111 1011011 1110111 1101101 1011111 0111101 1011101 11100101 0110111 1011011 1010111 1111111 1100101 0110101 0110101 1111101 0111111 1010101 10000101 1011111 1110101 0110101 1000101 1110101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, dead are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words god, will are repeated.
The author used the same word sinners at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines die is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase why connects the lines.
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