This is an analysis of the poem Saints Have Adored The Lofty Soul Of You that begins with:

Saints have adored the lofty soul of you.
Poets have whitened at your high renown. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXcacaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101010101 10110011101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 0110110101 110100111001 1111111111 1101111011 1011110101 1000011011 1011101111 0101110101 1011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; and is repeated.

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