This is an analysis of the poem The Sultan's Palace that begins with:
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,
As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cbcb dXde fgfg fhXh bXbi fgfg bXbf Xjdj dkdk Xfdf ilil mdmd gngn igig ieje omom eheh egeg gcgc didiXfifj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101011101 110111011110 1011100001001 0111000111101 111101111101 0100111101011 0100011111101 0110101010111 110101010101 0111011010010 000111010101 011001010101 010001010101 011101010111 010011011101 0100101011001 010101100101 01110010100111 011111110100 1001010110101 110101001101 0101001111100 010100111100 1111001010101 1111010101001 0111001111101 110101010101 1101111101000 111101110101 11000111001000 1101000110101 11010101101001 11010011101010 1101001010010 1101010100101 110111110100 1111001010101 110111110101 0101111101101 110101110101 11001110101010 110001100101 110011010101 110001110001 1111001110101 10001011111010 100111010101 11010110101010 111101010101 010101011111 111011010111 010101011101 111101110101 100101111101 110101110011 011101100111 111101110111 110001010101 110101110001 101111010101 110101010000 110101010101 110111010100 110101010111 10011011100111 100101100110 111101111011 110101101101 111101110001 110101110101 1001011100011 000101010100 1001110011111 111111101111 101111111101 111111010101 110101010011 111101111101 110111100101 010101111111 100101110101 01010011100101 100101111011 011101011101 101101100101 111111110110 0101011100101 001100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, in, my, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the, a, their, i are repeated.
The author used the same words i, unto at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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