This is an analysis of the poem Sacred And Profane Love that begins with:
In the dark shadow of the windless pines
Whose gloomy glory lines the obsequies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefXfacgaadhdadgdgdideXhdeeXXXddXjXkelgdXgemaf gffff nmnm cece mama oaoa oooo lele mfmf agaX mlll eXee cXce dfdf eXXX olol jfjf kakX pcpc Xgag fdfd afaf gogo amam hfhX hedagadXaj nene fofo dbdb eoeX fffX jedfcopcgm dfdf bdbd emem eded mfmf aoao dXdi f
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,4,4,4,4,4,10,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011100101 1101010100 00110010101 0110001001 0101100001 10010100101 10010100101 1111011000 1011010101 1000011011 1101011101 1011010111 0100010001 0101000101 0101010001 1011011101 1101100001 0101010101 1101000101 0101010101 1000011001 0110100111 1111100011 10001010100 0100110001 111010010101 1001010110 10010100001 0111010101 0100000101 0100011111 10011000100 100010101 11010011100 11100101101 0011010011 1101000101 1011011011 01110100110 0101110101 0101010101 100110001010 1101100001 0101110001 1011010110 1101010101 01001010001 11000001111 0101000011 11010101010 0111 1101010101 1101111001 10111000011 111111 111000101 1101111101 1100011111 0100011 1111010011 1111010101 1011010001 110111 1001010001 1111010101 01110101001 110101 0011110111 1101111101 0111111111 110011 1101001111 1100000101 10011010001 011101 11010011010 1101010011 111100100010 0100111 1011110101 1001000111 1101110101 101111 10011110101 1001110001 1001010101 1101000 0110111101 11010100010 11101111010 0101010 1011010101 11110011101 01110111001 110111 1001110111 1101011111 10110110101 110001 1101010001 0101110111 11100100010 110111 1111010011 1101101100 1000110010 110001 110110010011 11010100010 1010111111 1111110 1101001101 1101111111 1100011101 111111 11101000111 1101010101 0101010101 1100110 10001110111 0101100111 1101010011 010101 011000100100 1111010101 10011010001 1100111 0000110011 1011011101 1011010101 010111 1111010111 1001010101 1101010001 1000101 01010010001 11010011101 0101110111 011101 1111111101 1111010111 1100101111 011101 1011110111 1111000101 0111011111 110101 1111111101 1101101111 1101110001 0011110101 1111010101 1001101101 0100010111 1001110100 1101110111 01110100101 0001110001 1100110101 0101001111 1101000101 0101110101 0101010101 1101110101 0001011111 1101010111 0101110101 1001011111 1011110001 1101110001 0100010101 10001110101 1101010011 1101001101 1001100101 0101011101 11111111100 0111101101 1011000001 0101000111 1111011101 1101000101 1101010101 10010100101 0101010101 1011110101 100010111 1111011111 1111011111 1111011101 1101000111 1101111111 0011110011 1111111111 11111100101 1101011101 0001010101 1111001111 0101110101 1001010011 1110100001 1101110101 1011111111 1110110111 1101011111 1111011111 10001101001 1001010101 1011001111 1101010111 0111111111 1111110101 1101111110 1000010101 0101100101 1101110111 1111010101 1101100001 1110110101 0101011111 1101000111 1011110011 1101111101 1011010001 11011111010 110011110001 0100111110010 1101010111 1101010101 0100100001 0101010101 1101111111 1101010111 1011101111 01010101101 1010001101 0101111111 11010101001 1100010001 01011111001 0111010101 1101001101 11010101001 1011001101 1001010101 0111010101 1101010001 1101011101 1001010001 1001011101 0111010111 0101110011 0100010011 1001011011 1101011100 1111010101 00101010101 11110011101 10010010111 1101011101 1001010101 01001010111 0011110101 11001111010 10010010101 1101010001 1101011101 11011100111 0101000101 1111010101 11010110101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010011 1101010001 0011011111 1011110101 1101000101 1101110001 0011100101 1101110001 1011011101 0100010101 11010001001 1001110001 01010101100 0101000101 11010111001 1011010111 101010101 0101111000 1001010101 1111111001 1111000011 0111010100 1011011100 1001010001 0111110101 1001010101 1101000111 1011011111 0111010101 1100010001 1101011101 0111110101 1001000111 0101010111 11001101001 0101001101 11001011111 10001111000 1101011111 1001010101 11110111001 1100111111 110101101001 1111011101 1111010011 11111100100 1101000101 0111010111 0111111100 1001010001 1101010001 1111001011 1111010001 1101010101 11111110001 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 66
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 329
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; her, and, i, in, from, your, its, it, you, or, that, to, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, i, her are repeated.
The author used the same words then, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases mine, taught connect the lines.
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