This is an analysis of Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me by Augustus Montague Toplady.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccddee ffggaa hheeaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1010111 1111101 1010101 0110111 0010101 1100111 1010011 1101101 1111101 1111101 1111101 1111101 1001111 1001111 1010111 1010111 1100101 1110111 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111101 1010111 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
could, to, i
Anaphora
let, could, when
