This is an analysis of the poem Lauds For St. Germaine Cousin (1579-1601) that begins with:
Blessed is the One who lifts the slow sun
above this morning's raw orange edge, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcXXXXdce XbbXXdeXbeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111011 010101101 11010101 11000111 1010101111 11100011 111101011 100010101 01010101 11010101 1101110001 0101010 1011101100 00010100 01011011 11111111 1110111111 1111110010 1101101010 11001010 10101011 101011110 10111010 01010110 10110101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; who, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wings connects the lines.
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