This is an analysis of the poem Rise, Oh My Soul, With Thy Desires To Heaven that begins with:

1. Rise, oh my Soul, with thy desires to Heaven,
And with Divinest contemplation, use...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcee cfbfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101010010 1010010101 11110100010 1111111101 11010101 1111011111 111110100101 1111011001 1101110101 1111011101 10110100110 10110011110 10111010111 0111011101 0111110101 0111111101 0111111111 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; thy, that, my, thee, to are repeated.

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

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