This is an analysis of the poem A Forest Hymn that begins with:

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacadefgedaeahifjefaajakdgdgkaacaeaklXggmeaijbaagenfgecleXiofjhnapbe cdcaaqdimggffggfpXkma gbaaedeXjgcknXgnpgfhiemofqeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,21,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110111 0101110101 1101010111 0101010111 0101000101 0101110111 11000100101 1100010101 11010101100 1001011001 10011111010 1011011001 00010011111 1111110111 01000101010 11010010011 1100110001 1101010101 1001011101 1111111111 100110011 1011110001 010001 1011 1111000101 1101011111 0101011111 1111011011 1011111001 1101100100101 1110111111 0111011111 1111101111 1111010001 0100010111 11010010111 0111010101 0101110101 0111111111 0101110011 1101010011 0101100101 1001010001 1101010101 0111111001 10010010101 0001001111 01110100001 0101010101 10111011101 11011100101 0101010111 0100011111 1001010011 0110001111 1101010101 11010011111 1101010101 0111110101 1010111011 1011000101 1111110101 0101111001 001111001010 0101111101 1101000101 11010001001 010010000101 1101001101 1101011111 0011001111 01011001001 0101010101 0101011111 0100110100 1111111101 11010011001 11010111001 01010011101 1111011110 1001011011 1011010101 1001001100 0100010101 1111110101 00110011101 010101010 1001000101 1011001111 0111011111 1101011101 1001010011 1101111111 0101010011 111010111 0101110101 1100110111 11110011000 0110110101 1101010100 0101110111 1101111111 110101010011 0101000100 0111111001 110101111 1000111101 0101001101 0101011101 01010100110 0111011101 1011011011 1111111101 00110010001 1100010101 0111110100 10010010001 1001010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1731
  • Average number of words per stanza: 303
  • Amount of lines: 118
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, their, thou, of, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, of are repeated.

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