This is an analysis of the poem In Excelsis that begins with:
You -- you --
Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX de Xfgcfhddec ccafchXXci hcgfadXbdffdaaifd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,10,10,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111011101010 1110101010 11100101010101 01001100110100100101 0001001010101 10010101110010 11011110111 111101011 11010111111001110 1111 1101001111 11010 10111110110 1110111101011 1010101010 1110101 111111011 110101 1101010110 110101 1111 111011001 101010100 11101011 01010011 11011100111 111101010110 11010001011111110101 100100110011010 111110010011011 1001 1111111001010110 11101001010 010010 10010101 111110 11111 111 11 1111110100 11010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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, your, you, to, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, i, like, you, how, do are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines open, clouds, you are repeated).
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