This is an analysis of the poem Patmos that begins with:

The god
Is near, and hard to grasp. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeefgehfgggi chjklmhgmelien leXXagokhgpggd eXnfanqcrgXa dpcracgkggpcas mhadamictgXgreaqaee lgghejijheades jkihpljlrahgjbd mfopfemjfojkba mdjgcjapganglcsi Xhffhmhqriheiggnr imhaghhfijhmachl lggafmbdXgtgee nofpdcmnhgpgggjXehkelXlgdkhmeleahhhchnhde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,14,12,14,19,14,15,14,16,17,16,14,41,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 011101 111010 0100100111 1010010 101001 110001011 110110 111010 011101 11111 1011010110 111110 1111101 0110101 111110 111010010 1110111 001111101 01010110 1011010 0100011 11010101 11111100 01100100 0010110010 001001 1000101 101011 1011110 0101011 001011011000 1001101010 11011001 101011010 101010101 0010101 11101010 110101001 101000101 101011100 1111010 010110 101101 100111 010101001 11011 0101111 110111 110110101 0101010 0111101 101001 110001010 001001010 1010011100 00110110 0101100 100111 110100101 1101010 1111010 001111111 11101001 111110 110011 111110 01011111 100101 1101001000 0010010 0101101 0010000010 11010101 0100001010 110100001 1110101010 00101010 0110100110 1111000110 0101011111 1101001 10100100 010010001 11001111 101010101 01101110 101110100 110111110 111010101 110101010 1110001 1101010100 001110111 01010011000110 101111010 10111111 010010101 111101 10101011 10100101 110101001 11010100 1001011 00101001 1010111 01010001 100101110 111011011 01101 011100001 0101101 10110101 1101001 1011010 10100101 001011 1001011100 1001011101 11100101 01011111 011100101 0011011 1010100 010010100 010101101 1101010100 111111101 01111110 101010110101 1101 11111110 1101110100 01011101 10101 11111010 0100010001 011110101 1010111101 01111110 110100101 100100101 1100101010 1001110 01010110 010101011 11101 0001000100 111001 110100011 110010101 0110011 01010100 011010011 100100101 101101 00101011 0101010 010111 1100110 11001010 111010100 010100111 10111 101101011 010111010 1011101111 101011110001 11101 010100101 111000110100 1111001101 01111111 1111111001 01011110101 0011110100 10111101011 101000100110 101010010 01101101 101110101 1110 110010100010 011101010 110110111 1110101010 11011001 10001010 11110 11101001 0010100 01010111 1101110111 11001010 100111 11101 1111 11110 111100 0001010 01110 1001001 01010 110111 010101 1111 1010101 11101010 0101 111101 0101011 1101 11011 010011 0010010 1111 010001 100100 1100010 1110111 1001000100 01011 110010010 010101 1100010 1001100 01010110 11001101 0011111110 111010111 01001010 10001011 101001001 10110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 234
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, of, and, how, i, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in, and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Patmos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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