This is an analysis of the poem I: Easter Hymn that begins with:
If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,
You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110010101 1111111101 11001011111 01011101111 0111011111 1111110101 1001110111 1011010011 1111010101 1111001101 1111010111 11010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; in, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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