This is an analysis of the poem One Must Go Beyond God that begins with:
Where is my dewelling place? Where I can never stand.
Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001111101 1011010111101 000111111110 110101000101 1010101010 01001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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