This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 47: The Hidden Life that begins with:
To tell the Saviour all my wants,
How pleasing is the task! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fefe ddda gaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 110001 11011111 011111 110010101 011101 01110011 111001 10011111 110001 11011111 010101 10010101 110101 10010001 110111 11111101 111111 11011101 011101 11110101 111101 11011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- 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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