This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Xxiv: Saviour, If Thy Precious Love that begins with:
Saviour, if thy precious love
Could be merited by mine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dXdXdedeXbbbbdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1010011 1110101 1111101 1111111 1110101 1111101 1010101 1111101 10101010 1111111 1111111 1110010 1011101 1010101 1010111 1110101 1111101 1011001 1010101 1010101 1011101 1111111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words faith, how are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thee connects the lines.
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