This is an analysis of the poem Through A Glass Darkly that begins with:
What we, when face to face we see
The Father of our souls, shall be, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb ccbb ffgg hhiiXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01001110 11111101 10111111 01110100 01110101 11000111 00011111 11010101 11111011 11010101 11011111 111110001 11010101 11000101 10111111 10011001 01010101 11011101 11101111 11110111 01110101 11111101 11010101 11011111 10010101 11010010 00010101 11111111 11010101 11010101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word here at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Through A Glass Darkly;
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