This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Light that begins with:

What sky beheld thy primal birth,
When ageless night's dimensionless extent...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdbbceedXbXXXfXfXggXcghXhcbcXigjjgib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 1101100001 11010101 01010011100 111111 11010101 010101 0101010101 010101 010010001 101011101 1101 0100010010 110100001001 11010010 11010101 11011000 10010100110 1101010110 11100001010 1111001 1101 11 01001100 11010101 010101 110111 1001100 11010101 11010101100 010101001 1101110 010110 11010111 110010111 1001001 11010101 010100100100 11000100101 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 221
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their are repeated.

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