This is an analysis of the poem Hymn For The Class-Meeting that begins with:
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lends
The light of home, the smile of friends,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX aabb ccdd ccaa eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 01010101 11011110 10010101 11111111 01010101 01011101 01010111 11010111 1101001011 11111111 01110111 01011001 11110101 011111000 011101001 11110111 110010101 110101001 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, for, all, we, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, thy are repeated.
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