This is an analysis of the poem Conference Between Christ, The Saints, And The Soul that begins with:
I am pale with sick desire,
For my heart is far away... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcdede efefghghdfdf ijijbkbkdddd cbcbXbdbdkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1110101 0011010 101101 0010100 0101001 010111 1110101 10111011 10111 1111010 101111 111111 1011011 1111101 11001101 1110111 111101 111111 110101 10111011 110101 1111110 111101 110101 110101 110111 10101 111111 111001 110101 1110100 10111011 1110100 1111010 11111 1111101 110101 100101 001001 1111111 110111 111101 110111 10101011 011101 11111110 001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, and, i, cannot are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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