This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Xiv: Happy The Man That Finds The Grace that begins with:
Happy the man that finds the grace,
The blessing of God's chosen race,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd adXX ddee aaXa ddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 01001101 01010001 01110111 10010101 11010111 01010001 110010101 10011101 01010101 10010101 11010100 01110101 11010101 10011101 11010101 01011101 110100001 01110100 110100111 10011101 11010101 11111101 101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word happy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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