This is an analysis of the poem To The Holy Spirit that begins with:

Immeasurable haze:
The desert valley spreads...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabacacb dcdccacaeffe agaghchcfdfd ciciXbbbjhjkkh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,12,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 010101 110101 100101 111101 110101 111101 110011 110111 100111 110101 010101 111111 110001 100101 101111 111101 010101 011100 100101 101101 110100 111101 111101 110111 110111 111101 111101 111101 111111 111101 110111 110111 111101 111111 111101 1001001 110101 101100 0111001 010101 110111 100101 100111 001100 111101 100101 000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, beside are repeated.

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

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  • summary of To The Holy Spirit;
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