This is an analysis of the poem Alma Venus! [excerpt] that begins with:

Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,
Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXcddXc eeffgg hhiijjii aXccbX kkiillmmll aaXnccbbeeaaccddmmddggllmmccoommpp aammggaannffhhmmmmqqiillccmmXclX ephhccpege rrccccffaaiiiiccssaahhXfllhhcc ooaattbbmmllbbbbccttjj mmbbgghhcciiccggepeeaaeellccmmep peccaa bbiillfXcceXeel
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,8,6,10,34,32,10,30,22,32,6,34,16,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010101 1001001101 0111010101 11110111111 100100111100 1001111101 01010011101 10010101001 101010101 1001100101 010111101 11001010001 1101000111 001001010101 1101000111 0101011111 0101110101 1011111111 1011110101 1111101101 1011110101 1010011111 10111100010 101000010010 01001110101 1101010110 0101010101 1011100001 1101010110 10110101001 1001110111 0101010001 10110100010 01010100010 0011010101 1001010101 0101011101 1100010101 0101010101 1101000111 1101010011 1001110101 1001110101 0101010111 11010110101 0111001101 010101111 1011010101 01000010101 1011010111 0101010011 1011010101 1110000101 1001000111 0111010001 0101010101 0110010101 0111001101 1111010101 1001001111 0101000011 1101000111 1101010111 1001111101 1011100101 110011101 1101010101 0100010101 1001010111 0100010011 1101010111 1111011101 1111110100 11000100100 1110001101 01001110101 1111111101 1101110001 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110101 11001110101 1011010011 0101111101 0100110101 1101011001 0101001100 1111000101 0110010111 1100010101 0100010001 11010001010 11010011010 0101010101 0111000101 11001010001 1011010001 1101000101 1011010001 1101010101 100010101001 001010100100 0101110101 0100110101 0101000100 1010010101 1001010100 1011000101 0100010101 01100100101 0101011101 1011110100 1001100111 10010100101 01010001011 1111000111 1101000101 0101010101 0101010101 01001000101 0101111001 1001000111 1001110101 0101010101 0101010101 11001011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010100 1111010001 1011011001 0101001101 0101111011 0101111101 1001001101 1100110111 01011101001 1101000101 11001000101 1101001101 01110000101 1001010001 1111010101 0101000101 1100110101 1111010101 111010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101010101 1001000101 1101011111 0111110101 10010101011 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 110101001 11010100101 1101010101 0100010101 11110010001 1111000101 1101000101 1101000101 01001110111 1111001101 1001010111 01001010101 1101000100 0101001101 1101110101 0111111111 11111101001 0110111101 0110010101 0101110101 1101100101 11110101001 1101111101 0101110111 1101001101 111110101 0111111101 1111110100 0101010111 1111110101 0100100101 1011010101 1100011101 0110010101 01001001101 0101010100 1111110101 01010101001 0111011001 11001100101 1111110100 1101010100 1101110100 1101000111 0011011101 1101010101 0111010101 1001011001 0101010101 0111001111 101010101 1001010101 1101010111 1101000101 1101111101 1011011101 1101110111 10111010011 1011110101 01111101011 1111110101 1101110101 0010110101 1101101111 0111100100 11010101111 1111111101 01010101001 11010101001 100110110011 10111111101 0101010001 1010011101 1011010111 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1101011101 1101001001 01001001100 111110100101 0101110101 1001010111 1011111111 1011010111 11001001111 01011010100 0101001100 01001111010 1001110101 1010010101 10011010111 0111010111 1101110100 1001110100 1001110101 0101111111 0101111101 1010010101 01011011101 010010001 10011101101 1101010101 0101010101 11110110111 1011010101 10110011010 0101110101 0101010001 0110001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 282
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, wheels, but, who, and, your, or, that, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, though, that, from, ask are repeated.

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