This is an analysis of the poem St. Dorothy that begins with:

IT HATH been seen and yet it shall be seen
That out of tender mouths God’s praise hath been... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdbbaae XccddccaadXaaffXaddeX aaddeeggaahhddc ciijjkldXffccllaallm XlkeeeeXcXdccaab bkldeccddccnnoocccXllccmmee ddddddhhX iddaaXdllppaallddddllc clkaaccl knnaammeXddccbblXhhffppccmmeXooccXpeXaXccc ciieXccdehhffm mddccqqmmdXe Xddrrddedf fnnaaXbddllcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,21,15,20,16,27,9,22,8,42,14,12,10,50,16,26,30,12,40,6,8,18,24,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 1101011110 1011011101 1111011110 0101010011 1111110111 1101111100 1111100100 1100011100 1110110101 0101110011 0101100101 1100110100 110101100 0111110111 1101001101 1011010001 1101011101 1011100101 0100111101 1011010101 1011010101 01011111011 110011100 0101000101 0101011101 10111100101 0111010101 1011010100 0101011101 1100110101 1101010101 1101010100 1111011100 1101110011 1101010101 1100010101 1101111101 101101111 1101101101 1011001010 1011011100 1011110001 1101110101 1100110101 1101000111 1101010011 1101011011 1101010111 010110111 1111110111 1101101100 1100010101 1111010001 1111110100 0011010111 1111100101 1010010100 1001001111 1101110101 1101010001 1011010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110001 1101010111 1101110001 010110101 1101001110 1111110100 1101000101 1001110100 1111011101 1101001101 1001111100 1111000101 0100011100 00101100110 1101010001 1111111101 1111010001 1011011101 1101101101 0101110110 0101010100 0100001111 0100010101 1011001101 1001010111 0101111101 0101010100 1101011110 1111010111 1111110101 0101110101 1101011101 1111100111 1011110001 1011101110 1111110111 1001010111 111101010 1111010011 1111011010 1001000101 1101011101 1101111101 0111111101 1001111100 0101000101 0111010101 1101111101 1011010111 1111001101 0100010001 1111001100 0111010101 1011010101 011111010 0111110101 1011010111 1011110100 1011010011 1111011101 1011011100 1011010011 1011010101 0101010100 0111001101 1011111101 1110110011 1011111110 1101101101 1101101101 1101000101 101111011 1111101101 1111111101 11110100011 1011001110 1101111101 0101110011 0111110101 1011111100 1111111101 1001010011 1111000101 1100110111 1111011101 111000100 1011011111 0111110101 1101110111 1111100101 1111101111 1110011101 0101110111 111011100 0101010101 1011001101 1111111101 110110101 1101010100 0011110101 0111000101 1011111101 0111010101 1011110111 1101010101 1111111101 0101111101 1001010011 1111111101 10110010101 11110010100 1111110101 1100111111 1111011100 1001011101 1001111100 1101010101 1101110011 1101011000 1111001101 1001101100 0100111100 1101111101 010110010 1111110111 1100110111 1011111101 0100110001 1001001101 1011010101 11010111100 0011010100 1101010111 1111010001 11001111110 0101111100 0101010101 1111010011 1111011001 1000111011 0111000100 1111110111 1101010011 1011101101 1001010010 1111110101 1110111111 1111110111 0111111111 1011111111 1111010101 1101011100 1011111101 1111001100 1101011101 11110111110 1011010111 0001110101 1111111101 1101011101 1101111100 1101111100 0001011101 1101000101 100011010001 11010111001 1111010101 1111111001 111111010 1101010110 1111111111 1110110101 1111010101 1011110111 1001011101 1101010001 1111011101 0101010111 1001010001 1011110001 1001001000 1111110111 1100011101 1001010101 0101110110 10010001001 1101010101 1001001110 1100111011 1001000111 0111010101 1001110011 1101110011 1001010111 101101011001 1100110101 1111010101 1111001101 1101011101 1111001110 1111000101 110111011 11110010101 1111110001 1101110001 01101110111 1111000101 1111110001 1111010111 1011110100 1110011111 1101011101 1101001100 1100110100 1111111101 00011001110 1101110011 1011101111 1111011100 1101000101 1111010001 1111111110 1111111101 1111010111 0111010111 1001010111 1101001101 1111110111 1111111111 11000110111 1111111110 1111110111 1111011111 1111011111 1110110101 1111011101 1101001101 1111000101 1011111101 1001111111 0101010011 1101110001 1111111101 1011110011 0101111111 0001111001 1111111100 1111110011 1111110101 1111111111 1111010111 1111001101 1001010110 1111111101 1111010101 1111000101 0101110011 1101110111 11010100001 1110010111 1010110001 1001111101 100100011 0101010101 1010010001 1101010101 0011110100 1011110101 1101010111 1111010111 1111110011 10001010100 0101000111 10111100101 1101101101 0101110111 1100010111 1111001111 110101010 1101010100 1111000101 1101001101 110110101 1001000100 1100010011 1011010011 1101110011 1110111101 1111110001 0101111001 1011110111 01110110101 0101111100 1001101100 0101011111 0101110011 0101101000 1101010101 0111111100 1111101101 1111110111 1101010011 11110010101 1101101111 11010110001 0111100011 1011110011 1100010101 1101010101 1000110101 100110011101 1111010101 1001110001 0100011111 1100110001 1101010101 1111010101 1111010100 1011010111 1101010101 1100010001 1101010111 1111011011 1111000111 1101010011 1101010100 0111111111 1101000101 0101010111 1101010101 0011111001 1001000111 1011110101 1101011101 0011110111 1001011101 1101010101 110100111 1111000100 1111110001 1111011110 10111111100 1011110101 1111111100 1001110101 0101110111 0111110101 1001010111 1100110111 1001110001 1101000101 1111000101 1110111011 1011100011 1111110101 1011011110 0101010001 010110111 1011110001 11001100001 1110011111 1011110111 1111111101 110111010 1101110101 1101111111 1011010111 1001110101 0111110001 1111010101 1111101100 110101100 1001011100 1100110100 1111100111 0101101111 1101110111 0101010011 1111010111 1111010011 01111010111 1101110111 0111010111 1101110111 1011111111 1011001101 1101011111 01011010100 0100110001 1101010111 1011111101 0111010101 1100010101 1111111111 0111011100 101101100 0101011100 0101011111 1101111100 0100010101 0100110111 100111001 0011111101 1011010101 1101011111 1101010111 1101010101 1001010101 1101010111 1111110111 0001001100 1010110111 0111110111 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 480
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; hath, and, of, to, his, her, in, that, their, this, nor, with, all, i, as, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, that, lo, this are repeated.

    The author used the same words this, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of St. Dorothy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne