This is an analysis of the poem The Sense Of Beauty that begins with:

SPIRIT! who over this our mortal Earth,
Where nought hath birth ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff ddggcaachhijjikkjj clclcciieeee aafhhm jkjkeceXddggeekknn ddgegekkXkbb cccckkcccc hhXmaakkkbbhhhhX ddiXXjhhgghheecchheekk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,12,6,18,12,10,16,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011001101 1111 1101011111 110101 11010111001 110111011101 1100011 1001110111 1011000101 0101011101 1011110 1011011111010 0101110111 1001001101 110101 010111 1001010101 110101 111101 0101000101 1101 011101 1011010101 1011001 0100010 1101010011 110111 011101 1011100111 1001111100101 1011011101 100110101010 1101010101 11010101010 1101101 0111001 1101000111 1101110111 010101 010101 10110111001 01001010111 1101011101 1101010011 11111101010 1101011101 1101011101 111101111101 1101010101 11000100101 1101010111 01010011101 1111110101 1101010101 1001100101 11001010101 10110101001 011101 11001001001 0011001101 0111111111 1101010111 0101010111 11001011111 0111000101 1111000101 11011101 01010111 111101 00110100101 110011 1101010101 00110010001 1001 1011011101 1101010101 1101110101 11010011001 1101010111 0101110001 1011010101 1011110001 11010100101 0101 11010101101 1101001 0100101 1101010001 1101011101 1100010001 110011111010 1111010111 1101000101 110101 1111000101 0101001101 100101 0111110111 10110001001 1011010111 110101 010101 1111010111 1101001101 1101011101 11000110111 1001010101 11110101110 1010110110 001101 0011011111 110101 10100111001 1101010100 1000010100111 1001010010 1011000101 10010100101 101010101001 01011001001 1101110111 0011111101 110010101001 0101100101 1011010111 11001110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • 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; and, his, so are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Sense Of Beauty;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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