This is an analysis of the poem Being Beauteous that begins with:
Against a fall of snow, a Being Beauiful, and very tall.
Whistlings of death and circles of faint music...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXaXX bXaXXX X c b Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,1,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010101101 10011100110 100110101100 10101 111010100101 01100111 100110 0010001010 1001011 101001010101 01010101010 101101111110010 1011101 1111111111 1111 1101 1101 10101100111 001001111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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