This is an analysis of This Hymn Was Made By Sir H. Wotton, When He Was An Ambassador At Venice, In The Time Of A Great Sickness There by Sir Henry Wotton.

Eternal Mover, whose diffused Glory,
To shew our groveling Reason what thou art,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedebb fgfgee hihijj hkhkee lmlmbb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 0101010110 01110010111 01010101010 1111010101 1101111111 0110010101 1111110101 1111111101 1111111111 1101110111 1011111101 0111010111 1111100111 0111111111 0111000101 0111101101 1111110101 1111010101 1111011011 1100110101 1110010101 0100110111 11010101101 1101100101 1111100101 1111011001 0101010101 1100110001 0101110101 1001111101 1111111111 11110110111 1111011101 1001101001 1111110011 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

we, and, as, our, thy, my, now, in

Anaphora

where