This is an analysis of the poem The Empty Bowl that begins with:
I held the golden vessel of my soul
And prayed that God would fill it from on high.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010011 1111110011 1101010001 11010100101 01110101011 1101011101 0101010101 11101100110 1001010011 0111110111 1101001111 1101010101 1101110001 11010001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of The Empty Bowl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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