This is an analysis of the poem Satyr Vi. The Spleen that begins with:
Hail to the sacred silence of this Grove
Hail to the greens below the greens above...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdddddXcbee ddeeXffgggeeddXddhhddhh XbbhhXeXdcbceeddd eecccXddiiibbXdeeeXgccjj iicbbXeddkkeehhhhfffXfXll gXfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,23,17,24,25,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010001 1001010101 1111011101 010010101 111101101 111000101 1101110101 101010001 1001010101 101010110 0111100111 1111101111 1111101101 1101111101 1111010001 1100010101 1101110101 011011101 11110100100 0101110101 010100011 10111011101 111000111 1101010101 11111100101 1101011111 0101110111 111111101 101110101 0111000101 111001111 1101010111 110111101 0111010101 1011011111 111010011 0011010111 1011110101 101001101 0101000100 111110111 1101011100 111010111 111100111 01000100111 11010101001 011011100 10111101 1001010101 1101010001 1011001101 1111011101 0101010011 101010101 1111100001 111010101 1101010111 111111100 110111011 010101101 1101010101 001111001 1001110101 1101110111 101010001 1101010101 1010101011 1100011111 1111001111 1111110001 1101010001 1111010101 101010110 1101010101 1111111111 111010001 1111110101 1100010001 1101010101 011111101 1011010001 1110010101 1011010011 110011101 11010110101 0110010101 1111010001 1111101001 1101011101 1101010111 0101011111 1111111101 1111010111 1011001111 110010111 11111011 0111110111 101010011 11110011111 1101001101 1101110100 1011010101 101110011 1111010111 011101011 0100111101 010101101 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, my, with, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hail, how, the are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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