This is an analysis of the poem On Divine Love By Meditating On The Wounds Of Christ that begins with:
Holy Jesus! God of Love!
Look with pity from above,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbeeaa ggeebbffhhdd iijjeedddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010001 1010101 0111111 1110101 1011111 1111100 1010101 0111101 0010101 1010101 1010101 11111 01010101 01010101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1100101 0101101 11110101 11010111 0010101 11010101 11100101 01010111 11010111 11110101 10101010 10101010 1110101 1110111 1011101 1110101 11111101 01010101 11111111 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; let, of, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, sweet, they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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