This is an analysis of the poem Religious Musings : A Desultory Poem Written On The Christmas Eve Of 1794 that begins with:
What tho' first,
In years unseason'd, I attuned the lay... full text
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,65,24,17,55,40,26,36,145,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111 00100010101 010101011 1100101001011 11010100101 1101010111 0101110101 100101100 100 1010100101101011001010100101001000001101001000011100110010011000011001001101001001010010010 0001110101 0101010101 1001011110 110000101101 01000100101 1100101101011 1111110101 11000111101 10100101 0100110101 0001010101 10010000101 110001011 11001010101 1011010101 10110101010 1111110101 1011000101 1011010101 10011000100 1000011010 11110101010 1101010101 11110111010 11001010101 10011100100 10101110101 10110 10101 01111110010 1101010101 1011110001 1101010100 111000101010 1111100011 1001010011 1101011101 10011000100 00101100101 0111010011 0101011101 1100011111 1101010001 1101010011 1001001101 111101 1111 100101001010 1111010101 0101110001 1101011100 11010010001 10011111001 1111001101 11001110111 1101100101 1111011111 00111100011 1111010101 0101100010 1101010101 1011011111 1111010101 11010111011 0101000100 1001010101 1101111101 1111010101 11000111101 1101001101 10110011101 11001010101 11110101010 1101110001 01001001101 10010101100 1111010101 11100000101 0101011110 11010010101 11001000100 11011011101 1100100100 0001010111 1101010101 11110010101 0101010100 1111010011 0001101001 10001010111 1011011101 1101010101 11011101010 1111011001 10001110000010 1101010101 11111100011 101101001001 0101110101 1101110101 11001001101 1011010101 0101011111 110011100101 11011101001 11010111010 1011110101 1000110101 1010001001 11110000101 10011100101 0110000111 1001101101 1101011101 1100110100 0001010011 10110100100 11110001001 1111110101 01001101010 1100110011 1001000111 01001001101 1010110101 1111010101 01011000111 10010011101 01001 100101 1101000101 1101001101 0100010101 1100110111 0111111111 0011010101 10010010100 0100110001 1101010111 0101110101 1101011011 1001100101 11011110001 10011111001 11010101010 1011010111 1111110101 1000111101 0101010101 1100010101 1111100001 11010111010 1001010101 1101000101 1111001101 1001011101 1111010011 01111111001 11011101110 11010100001 1101010001 001010100 11100111101 1111000101 100111001 1111011000 0111001101 010111001001 0101010101 11010100101 1100110111 1001110011 1101110101 0111010101 10011110001 01010000101 11100011011 1101011101 1101000101 1001010101 1011110110 10010011001 11010100101 1101000101 11110100101 11010100101 1101010100 1101110101 1001010101 0101110001 1100010100 00110001001 0110110111 0100110111 1100010101 0100 101001 0101011111 1101010111 1000110111 1011010101 01010011001 00010101001 0101010001 10011000111 1101010101 11010100101 1101110101 1100011101 1111011011 1011110101 0101111101 01001011101 01010111001 10000011001 1001010001 11000010100 1101110101 01001010101 10011111011 1111001101 110111001001 01000110100 0101010101 11110010001 10110101001 111101100 110110101 01001010011 110010101010 101001010011 1001010111 1001110001 1111001111 10000010101 00101000110 1011000101 10110001001 11110101001 101100010101 1101010101 1001010101 1011000101 0101110101 11011101001 110101010001 1111111011 1101010101 1101010001 11001110101 11001010101 1001001011 1101110001 0101010101 0111010101 1101111101 1001010111 10001010101 0100110111 1101011101 0101010001 0101110111 1011011101 11110000111 1101011101 0111010101 0101010111 11110101100 1110010001 01010101110 1010010100 10100011111 1101010101 0101011101 1111011111 1111010111 010101101 1001010101 11010111001 1011010101 01110 11100 1110010100 1011011111 1101011111 10111101001 1101011111 0100010101 0101110100 1011001100 1101110101 1101011101 111011101 0101111100 11110111010 11010111000 1011000101 0011011101 1001110101 1101111101 10110101001 1111010111 1101011011 1001101111 10101011111 11011010101 1001001111 1111111101 1001010101 0101110011 11011101010 00100010101 1111010101 10010001001 1101010101 0110110001 01111111010 11010010101 11110100101 1001110101 10101011101 1111000101 10111101010 01010000111 101101100001 101110001 101011101 10001011 101 1111000101 1101110101 1101000101 1101011100 11010010111 0101001101 10000111110 1111110100 1111001111 111100001010 1001011101 1111010010 1101011101 1101111111 1011010101 11010111111 0111011100 010011111 1100110001 1001011101 0101001101 1101010100 10110010101 0101010111 1101110101 1100010100 1101010101 11100101001 01111010101 01000100101 0101010101 11111100010 1101111000 1111010101 1111010111 1001100101 0101110100 1111010101 1101010101 10111001001 0101111101 100010101 0110010101 1001110101 0101001001 10010110101 1011110011 1011010101 11011001111 1100001101 1011110100 11110001101 10111100101 1101011100 1001110001 11011111001 01110010101 1111010101 01110011101 1101010111 11011000101 11010111010 1100110111 1011010101 1100010001 10110011101 01001010101 01001010101 11001010011 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1011 011111 1001010001 1111010101 1001010101 1101000101 1101010001 10111101101 10010111010 010010010101 0100010100 110101011000 11010101001 0101011001 11010001001 11010010101 11111101011 1100111101 0100001101 11110001011 10011101001 0110010101 110110100011 1011110100 1101110011 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1711
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 436
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, nor, when, and, all, god, his, he, self, thee, to, from, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and, self, thee, she are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flies is repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
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