This is an analysis of Hymn Xxiii: Extended On A Cursed Tree by Charles Wesley.
Extended on a cursed tree,
Besmeared with dust, and sweat, and blood,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bcbc cbcb dada efef XaXa bbbb ghgh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101011 100011111 11010101 110100101 11110011 11110101 11110111 11101101 11011101 11110111 11111101 10011101 01011001 11111111 01111111 01110111 000100101 11010111 11000101 01010101 1011101 11010111 11111111 10011101 11011101 11110111 11111111 101111100 01010101 11110111 11010101 11110111 11111111 100111111 11011111 11001101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, who, hath, thy, i, have, me, to, all
Anaphora
who, no, to, too
