This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 20: Old Testament Gospel that begins with:
Israel in ancient days
Not only had a view ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdaXee fcfcgg ededhX ehehee cicihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 110101 011001 110101 01110001 01110101 010101 111001 100101 1101010 11010101 01011101 010111 001100 110101 100101 11111101 11110001 011101 010111 100101 100111 011100101 10111110 100101 010111 011101 010101 01010101 11010101 101101 010101 011011 0101001 11111100 010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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