This is an analysis of the poem Veni, Creator Spiritus that begins with:
Creator Spirit, by whose aid
The world's foundations first were laid,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb XXXXcc bXaadXd ddeeff ggbb hhbb iiaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01010101 11010101 11111101 01110111 11110101 1101001 01010100 110111010 11010101 11110101 01001111 10010101 10111100 11000101 11111101 01010101 11010110 11110100 01111101 110111011 11011101 01010001 11010111 11111101 101110101 11010101 11111101 01111001 11010101 11011101 11111111 01010111 01010101 011010101 01010101 11110101 11010100 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our, and, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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