This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change that begins with:
How bless'd Thy creature is, O God,
When with a single eye, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc deae Xfff cgagXcdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 100101 11010011 010011 11011101 111101 01010011 010101 11110101 010111 10110101 110101 01010101 010101 101100101 1101001 010011101 010101 110100011 110001 11010001 0101101 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- 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.
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