This is an analysis of the poem Cor Cordium that begins with:
O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire,
Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabbadaedce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010100110 110101101001 1100101111 0101001101 110011111010 1110110101 10110110011 11110101110 1111011101 1111011110 1111111001 1111111111 1101001111 0101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, thy, sake, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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