This is an analysis of the poem The One I Was Searching For On The Earth And In Heaven that begins with:

The one I was searching for on the earth and in heaven
Appeared residing in the recesses of my own heart...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa ba bb XX cc dX XX Xb eb fb dX XX db gg Xb ff deXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111011011010 01010001000111 10010000101100011 0101011000111 000110100101011 0101011111011 11011101110 11101110100010 01001001010110 1010010101011 1101010110101 11100101100110 0110101001010 01010010101100 01010111001010 11101010010010 101001101011 01010100001001 11101101011111110 110010101111 01101111000101 11000101000110100 10010110111 10111110001110 1111111101101 000110110100110 01001010100110 111110101001110 1101100101110100 1101010110001010 1011011011011 11010010100111 101110001010010 010001010100010101 00110011011101 0110111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, you, have, beauty are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines foreheads, beauty, time are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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