This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 10: The Future Peace And Glory Of The Church that begins with:
Hear what God the Lord hath spoken,
'O my people, faint and few, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac abdbaaaa dedeeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1110111 10001010 11001111 10111010 1110111 11111010 1111101 11111010 1001111 10111010 1010101 10101010 1110011 10111010 1010101 11111010 1011111 11101010 1010101 111110101 1010101 10110110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your is repeated.
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