This is an analysis of the poem This Hymn Was Made By Sir H. Wotton, When He Was An Ambassador At Venice, In The Time Of A Great Sickness There that begins with:

Eternal Mover, whose diffused Glory,
To shew our groveling Reason what thou art,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedebb fgfgee hihijj hkhkee lmlmbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010110 01110010111 01010101010 1111010101 1101111111 0110010101 1111110101 1111111101 1111111111 1101110111 1011111101 0111010111 1111100111 0111111111 0111000101 0111101101 1111110101 1111010101 1111011011 1100110101 1110010101 0100110111 11010101101 1101100101 1111100101 1111011001 0101010101 1100110001 0101110101 1001111101 1111111111 11110110111 1111011101 1001101001 1111110011 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, as, our, thy, my, now, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.

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