This is an analysis of the poem Boston Hymn that begins with:
The word of the Lord by night
To the watching Pilgrims came,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede fefe bgag caXa hdhh difi faXa adah jdcd hfXf klkl kiki Ximi jnXn jaba icac jbjb dbXb hgXg mhmh lolo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111 0010101 1111011 111101 11111001 110011 10110101 011001 111101 0101011 11011101 1100111 11001010 110011 11111111 111001 1101001 111011001 1010110011 111101 110100001 1111001 1100111 0110101 100111 100111 1111010 111111 10110010 1100101 10110110 110101 11110010 110101 11010010 1110101 1010010 011101 01000101 10011110 1100111 111101 010010100 011111 110111 1100111 11110101 110100 111101 1010001 10110101 010101 11111100 111001 10011111 1111001 11010010 010001 1111011 111101 11011010 0101111 11010010 1010001 0110010 1101101 11010001 101101 1100010 1101001 1001001010 110111 11111011 11011101 01011101 0101011 110101 110101 011111000 110101 111111 110111 1101101 110111 100110 1011101 11011101 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; and, in, owner are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word poor at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Boston Hymn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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