This is an analysis of the poem Soul's Beauty that begins with:
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cXddXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001011111 10110010111 10100110111 1100110111 0101110101 0111111111 1111110011 00101000111 0011010011 1111111101 11011100101 10001001111 11000100100 0111110111
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Soul's Beauty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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