This is an analysis of the poem In Excelsis that begins with:
It is half winter, half spring,
and Barbara and I are standing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdeXfe XgchXegbiXghcbdi XjiieekXjjbhbhjcgcifdgjbbahka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,16,29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110101 110011110 010010 01010101 1011101 100100101 110010 1100101010 0101010010 110010 10100 110111011 111101 111001 11101101 111010 10010 100 1110100101 11101011 1110111 11111 1111101110 01010 111101111 110101 111010 0100111 111 001001 1100 11010 110100101 10111101 10101 111001000111 110010 10001101 110111101 1111101 11110001101 1101 0111001 101101 111 10110 111101 1001 101001 1110101 10010000100 1110 1011001110101 1011 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, its, i, her, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, both, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vow is repeated).
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