Poem Analysis of Glory To God Alone by William Cowper for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Glory To God Alone that begins with:

Oh loved! but not enough--though dearer far
Than self and its most loved enjoyments are;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXff ddff Xghh ddff eeee iiff iiggXffdd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 1111011101 1110110101 1101111101 01001010101 1001110101 1111110101 1111011101 1001010101 10011100101 01100010101 1110000101001 1001010101 1110011111 1000100101 0101010101 1110000101 1101001110 1001101101 1111010101 1101111101 10001011011 1111010101 11110111001 1111011111 11000101011 1011001101 11010100100 1101010101 1101110011 0111010101 0101001101 1111111111 1111001101 1111000111 01001000001 0111011101 0111000101 1111110101 1100010101 1111111101
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thou, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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