This is an analysis of the poem Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney that begins with:
Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer,
In heaven thy dwelling-place,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dada ecec fcfc gggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 0101101 01010101 110111 11111111 111101 10010101 110101 11111101 0101001 11110011 111111 10110101 010111 11111101 1111001 11011101 101101 11010101 111111 10111101 011101 101101011 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; thy is repeated.
The author used the same word thanks at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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