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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