This is an analysis of the poem A Thanksgiving And Prayer For The Nation that begins with:
From A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcXaaXcbabebbbfbbXbbXbbbdbfbeXbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,35,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100110001010001001 1101001101101010 10111101110 11001011010 11110111010010 111100 11101110101 110111110101 1111110010010 111111 01001000100010 010010101101010 1111 01010011110 10011110 01010 110101010001001101010101110111001001110010001010101001 11000111011 0100011100100010100011 11110101110 10111111010011 1110111011 111010111111011011111110 111001101 11 1001 0101 001010 01010 010100 11101 110101 010101101 111 1001101 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 797
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, my, thy are repeated.
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