This is an analysis of the poem On The Water Of Our Lord's Baptism that begins with:
Each blest drop on each blest limb,
Is wash't itself, in washing Him :... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 01010101 1011011 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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.
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