This is an analysis of the poem Psalm To The Desert that begins with:
1. The years have set thee apart, O Desert;
Silence and solitude are upon thee...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cdX ef Xc cf XXX fgXX XX ea dhfX iXjX bdf bec dghX icc Xhjf eh XXXjajf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,2,2,3,4,2,2,4,4,3,3,4,3,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101110 1011011011 1010100010100 1110001011110 010011010 00100 1101010101 0100010 111010 01001101 101010001 11101010010 111110010 1111100 10010111 1110010 01010101 11001010100 01001000110 110010010 0111 111101010001 10100101 111101110 01000101001 10100010 110010 11110100101 10101001000 010011101 0010010010 1110100011 1101101010 111001010 101011011 010100101 1010101001 101011110 0110010001 10100101010 1111011 111110101 01011101010 1010010 1101010010 01110 101111 101001101010 11101010001 110010100001 111111100100 0010010 1101010101 001010100 1101001 00100010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, of are repeated.
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