This is an analysis of the poem Beauty Implacable that begins with:

White Beauty, bending from a throne sublime,
Hath claimed my lips with kisses keen as snow:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddc cefcef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101000101 1111010111 1111010111 0111010001 1001010111 01110100101 1101100101 1001110101 1001010101 1101010101 1111001110 1100010101 1101110111 11111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

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  • summary of Beauty Implacable;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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