This is an analysis of Hymn 153 by Isaac Watts.
The distemper, folly, and madness of sin
Sin, like a venomous disease,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc cdcd aeae cbcb ffffXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 00101011001 11010001 011101 01010101 100101 11011111 111101 11010101 000101 10110101 010111 11110101 0101001 11011101 110001 10010001 110111 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 01010101 101111 11111101 101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
we
Anadiplosis
sin
