This is an analysis of the poem Satan Unrepentant that begins with:

Lost from those archangelic thrones that star,
Fadeless and fixed, heaven's light of azure bliss;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaefccgag XhXahbhgcfXij gbigkjglemkncgchao bkicXXogobgccjigagjignilbocjh hXbbipdiimbggopmcmhkhceki
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,18,29,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110001011 100111010101 10001010101 01010011110 1011011101 10001010100 1100000101 100110101010 0101110101 1101011001 01011101001 1100010101 011010011 1011010111 01111000101 00110011101 11010011110 11110100101 0101010101 1101010001 0100110100 11001010001 110101011 1101000101 0101010100 0101010001 1101110101 0111010111 1011010101 0101010101 0111110100 0111010101 101110101 1100101000 1101011101 0111010101 0011110101 01001010101 1100010011 0101010101 0100110010 0101011101 0111 110011 1011010101 0100011101 1101010011 1001110101 0111010010 1101111101 1111010100 1101011101 1101010101 0101110111 0100010001 0101101101 1101010100 1001010111 1011111101 1011001101 11110010001 0101110100 0101011101 1111010101 0101010101 0101000111 10011011111 1001000100 11011101011 0101011001 1001010100 01010101010 0101010101 1001110100 1101011000 11011000010 1101110101 0101000111 11010100010 0101010011 1010101111 1101011001 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 1101000111 0111011101 0100010101 010001011101 100011101001 00010111101 11110010101 01001011101 0101010111 0101010100 11001010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 792
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.

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

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