This is an analysis of the poem When All Thy Mercies, O My God that begins with:

When all Thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb aXdc beae Xaaa fghg idid fece iXae idcd jiXi hjbj ceaeXdbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 110101 01000111 010111 11001101 1111100 10010111 110101 01110111 110111 11110111 010101 100010011 110101 01110101 011101 100100101 010111 11010111 111101 11010111 010111 11010101 100111 11110101 010101 110111001 111101 11010101 111111 10011101 110111 11010101 110101 10010101 111101 11010111 010111 11011101 011101 1100100011 110101 11010101 0100101 11011111 011111 11010111 110101 11010001 010111 11100011 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; with is repeated.

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