This is an analysis of the poem The Offering Of The New Law, The One Oblation Once Offered that begins with:
Once I thought to sit so high
In the Palace of the sky;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddee ccdd ddcc ffXX ddgg hhcc Xddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 0010001 1111101 01110101 1110111 1010101 1111101 01010101 1110111 1110001 1111111 01111111 1111111 1111101 1111101 11110111 1011111 1111111 1010111 10011101 1011111 1011111 1011111 11110101 0110101 1111111 1011101 01111100 1011100 1101111 1110101 11111011 10101100 1111111 1011101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, bless, my, yet, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words once, yet, none are repeated.
The author used the same word once at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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