This is an analysis of the poem In An Illuminated Missal that begins with:
I would have loved: there are no mates in heaven;
I would be great: there is no pride in heaven;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccccXbXXdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111111010 11011011010 1111110100 010101011 110100101001 1111111101 1101010111 11110101001 1101100111 1001111000 11110110010 0111011111 0101010100 1001011100 0101010100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; would, i, my, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heaven is repeated).
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