This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience that begins with:
No strength of nature can suffice
To serve the Lord aright: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX caca dede dbdb fXXeXfafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010110 11111101 110101 11010111 010101 11011001 110101 10010101 111111 101101001 111101 11110101 010001 11010001 110101 11111101 1111001 11110001 010101 01011101 1101001 10010001 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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