This is an analysis of the poem Hark! The Vesper Hymn Is Stealing that begins with:
HARK! the vesper hymn is stealing
O'er the waters soft and clear; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbCabCXaAaaCaAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10010111 10111010 1110101 10001 10111010 1010101 10001 11111010 0010101 11101010 1010101 10001 10111010 0010101 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 repeated the same word amen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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