This is an analysis of the poem Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour that begins with:
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebfebf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 110111110010 111111001010 01111111010 01110001010 10011111110 1011110111 11111101110 1101010001 111111111011 11111111110 1101010111 10010101111 11010011110 10111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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