This is an analysis of the poem When I Lose Myself that begins with:
When thus I lose myself in Thee, my God,
Then do I see, and know,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX bXcc abX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 111111 11110101110 1101011101 0111 01110101 01110110 0101 0110110101 1101 1101 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; all is repeated.
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