This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 12: Ephraim Repenting that begins with:
My God, till I received Thy stroke,
How like a beast was I! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dddd efef dgdg hXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 110111 11010001 110001 01110111 111101 11010100 110011 11000111 110101 11111101 110111 11010011 110101 11011101 110101 11011101 111101 11010101 110110 11011111 111101 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word 'is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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