This is an analysis of the poem Russian Cathedral that begins with:
Bow down my soul in worship very low
And in the holy silences be lost....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX bdbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1001010001 1101010101 1101010101 11001011101 1100110101 0101011111 1011011100 1111110101 0101100101 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; bow, down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bow, what are repeated.
The author used the same word bow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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