This is an analysis of the poem Spirit And Star that begins with:
Through the bleak cold voids, through the wilds of space,
Trackless and starless, forgotten of grace,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaEE ffggffaabbeE bbeegXffhXeE ffffii hhggeE bbaaiihhbXeE bbggiijjffeE aaiibbhhffEE ee kkiiaaaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,6,6,12,12,12,2,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110101 1011001001 1011010111 1011010111 11110111 1010010010101 1001010101 1110100101 10110110101 0100110101 1111101111 1111111111 1101101110 0101001010 010101101 01011011101 10111101 100100101 0110111101 00100100101 11101101111 1001001001 111101111 1111111111 10101101001 110110101 1100101001 1011001001 110011101 111011110 10101101101 001110101 100110101 001010100 11111011011 1111111111 0010101101 1100100111 0101110101 110100101 1110100101 111110111 010100101 1100110101 1001011111 100100111 111101111 1111111111 110100101 1101101111 01000100101 010110100 1100100101 1110101101 010110111 1110100101 010110111 101101100 1110011111 1111111111 110111100 1011100100 1110101101 11100101001 111101010101 11111101101 1101101001 10100111101 110101101 111100101 111101111 1111111111 111101001 011111101 1011101001 0010100101 111010111 001001001001 1111011001 1010111111 1111010101 0111111111 1111101111 1111111111 00101100101 10100100111 11101111001 1101110101 1100111001 1011010101 111101101 1010010100 01110100111 11111001001 001001001001 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 96
- 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; through, of, i, and, to, my, have, for, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, the, i, when are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word star at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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