This is an analysis of the poem The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Everywhere that begins with:

O thou, by long experience tried,
Near whom no grief can long abide;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXff ggdd bbhh ggbb iiaa cceeXffaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101001 11111101 11110110 11100100 11010101 01010101 100111101 010011101 01011111 110001001 11011101 11011101 11111111 01110001 10010111 11010111 11011111 10010101 11010111 01010101 11011101 11011111 01111101 11111101 11110101 01110111 11110111 11101101 11011101 0111001001 11110101 11010100 11000101 11111101 11011011 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, my, i, by are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.

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