This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To Eros that begins with:

Lord of the many pangs, the single ecstasy!
From all my rose-red temple builded in thy name,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbX XbbX cddc effe ghhg eiie djjd kaXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100101010100 011111010011 110011000111 11010110100 110101100100 010001101101 0101010100101 1101101110100 100110011100 1101001110101 110001010101 111101011100 11101101100 010001110111 011101110100 110101010011 101101011101 0111010111110 101100100101010 011101111101 0101110001010 0011010010101 0101010101001 1101010101010 0101000100101 0101011110010 10110101010110 101101011001 1011001100101 101111011100 110111110101 1011001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word perchance at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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