This is an analysis of the poem The Temple - What Makes It Of Worth that begins with:
You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers,
You may go with your steel to the sky...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dededddd fafacdcdXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110101 111011001 111001001000 101001011 111001001011 101111011 001001000101 001001001 111101001101 111011101 1101001111 111001011 111001001011 001001101 101001011011 001001001 11111011011 11111111 111001011101 11001011 111111011011 101101101 01001001001 101101001 100001010001 10001001 11001011001 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, may, it, with, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word men at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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