This is an analysis of the poem A Psalm To The Best Beloved that begins with:
Thou comfortest me with the manna of thy love,
And the kisses of thy mouth are wine and sustenance;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcabcXdefdbefeXXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010011 1010011111100 111011 010101011001001 11110101 1101101001010 1101011011 001001010 1101001 10100011111 11100101 001010010010110 11110101 00100010110 110001010 101001 101011010010010 01100010100 100101 01110010001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, thy are repeated.
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