This is an analysis of the poem The Rose And The Cross that begins with:

Out of the seething cauldron of my woes,
Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabba cdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010011 1111110011 111010011 1111110000 01011100101 0100110101 0101010101 0011110101 01001000101 01001100100 01010110101 1101110111 11110101010 11110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; where, and, its, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Rose And The Cross;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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