This is an analysis of the poem Olney Hymn 58: True And False Comforts that begins with:
O God, whose favorable eye,
The sin-sick soul revives, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcdc bcbc eded fXfX gaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 011101 101100001 110101 11110101 100101 11011101 011101 01010111 111111 11010101 110001 10011101 111101 01010101 111101 01010101 0101010 11111111 111101 11011101 111101 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; they is repeated.
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