This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvii: Beauty's Pageant that begins with:
What dawn-pulse at the heart of heaven, or last
Incarnate flower of culminating day,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaccadaXdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110101011 01010010101 1101010101 1111011100 11001110101 11011101001 110110010111 01010010111 1101010101 1111010101 0101111110 10011101001 1001110111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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