This is an analysis of the poem Ralph Waldo Emerson that begins with:
OUT of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light,
Into the unknown firmament withdrawn... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdececcfcghihiccccababdfdgjcjckikikckclalaababdcdckkXkccccbmbmnbnbdodokbkbnaXambmb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110111 0000110001 0101111001 1101110111 1001011101 0010010001001 10010100111 0111001101 1001110101 1001010101 1001010101 1100010101 1111010101 0101000111 1101011101 1011010100 10010101010 0101011111 010111010010 1101100101 1101011111 0101010101 1111110001 1001000101 0110011111 0111010011 0101110101 01001000101 1101010111 1110011101 1110111101 1001011100 1101001101 11010100111 0101110101 0101010101 0111010101 01100011001 1101111101 0111010001 1101010001 01011001001 1101101101 01011100001 1101110101 0101010111 1101110101 0101001101 11110011001 1001110101 0101010001 0101010101 1111010111 0100010101 10110111101 01010100101 1101111101 0111010101 01110101100 0011110101 1101110101 1011110111 0101011101 0101010101 1101010101 10110101101 01011000101 01001010101 1111001101 1101100101 1101100101 1111010101 1111000101 10101010101 1110010101 0100111101 1011110101 1111010101 0101011101 0111110101 1110010101 1111110111 11010101111 0111110101 0101110001 01010110110 0111010101 01110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3826
- Average number of words per stanza: 690
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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, to, of, his, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, his are repeated.
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