This is an analysis of the poem Behind The Veil that begins with:
I PACED along
The dim cathedral wrapped in reverend gloom :... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccadaDEEFFececggedeDEEFFhfhfaahdhDeEFFhdhdeehdhdeefF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 01010101001 110111 01101010101 00110010101 01110101001 0011010101 1101110101 0101010111 111111 11111111 11111101 11111111 01010001 1101 1000101011 101010110101 10111101001 1001110101 1001010111 1011010101 0111000111 1111110101 111111 11111111 11111101 11111111 01010001 1101 0101010101 1101001 1001010101 11010010101 11000100101 10010010101 001011010101 1101111101 111111 11111111 11111101 11111111 01010001 1101 1001010101 110101 0101000101 1110110111 1111010101 10110011101 01010110101 0101010101 011101 11011101 11111101 11010101 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2120
- Average number of words per stanza: 383
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, though are repeated.
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- summary of Behind The Veil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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