This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 15: Praise For The Fountain Opened that begins with:
There is a fountain fill'd with blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc aXaX dcdc efef acac bgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 101001 11010111 111101 01010101 110001 11111111 111101 11011101 1101010 110100101 010111 101111101 110101 01011011 110111 10010101 1111001 101101001 110001 11011101 010110 11011101 010111 11111100 1111001 01010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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.
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