This is an analysis of The Conversion Of St. Paul by John Keble.

The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,
Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddcefc bbgccg hhibbi jjgkkg Xefaaf kkeeeX ccliil bXgbbg eedmmd ffbnnX aacbbc ffoeeo ffXaaa bbbffX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 01110101 1100101001 010101 011101001 111100101 011101 01001101 11110101 110011 0111111 110010101 111111 11010111 111101001 011101 11010111 11010101 111101 10011111 11010101 1101001 110111001 01010101 0111001 11111001 11010101 1010101 010010011 11010101 1011010 10100100110 11111101 011001 110110101 11011001 1010001 1011101101 111101011 101101 1001111001 11101001 1101010 11011101 110010101 101101 010111101 10110111 110011 111011111 111101100 101101 0100101001 11110101 111101 1010010111 11110110 011101 11111111 11111101 001101 100111101 11011001 010111 010100111 01010111 010010100 11110111 11111101 110101 11111101 10010101 1100101 10111001 11010101 1101010 11111101 11110111 1001110 11111101 11011111 1011010 110010101 10111111 110111 11111101 11010011 0011001 100011101 10011111 1101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 15
  • Lines: 90

Repeated words/phrases

thy, and

Anaphora

as, nor, christ, and