This is an analysis of The Incomprehensible by Isaac Watts.

FAR in the Heavens my God retires:
My God, the mark of my desires,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddddeaaeaafddf
  • Stanza lengths: 6,15,
  • Metre: 100101101 110101010 110101 11010111 11110001 11011100110101 101101001 110101 11010111 10110011 111011 10010111 11010101 10010101 11010111110111 11011101 01011111 110101 11010101 11010101 01110101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

my, of