This is an analysis of the poem Moravian Hymn that begins with:
O draw me, Father, after thee,
So shall I run and never tire:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeee fbfbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111111010 01011101 011111010 110100111 11110111 01010001 1001111 11010101 11010101 10011101 111011001 010001111 010011110 11010111 110101010 01110111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; me, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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