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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