This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word that begins with:
Oh how I love Thy holy Word,
Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xaaa eeff XaaaXaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010011 01100101 11010101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11010101 110001000 010010111 11111101 11111011 11011101 11111101 01110101 11100101 111111000 11111101 11010101 11010101 11111111 11011101 10110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, thy are repeated.
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