This is an analysis of the poem The Human Temple that begins with:
The Temple in Darkness
Darkness broods upon the temple, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXcdc decefe Xgfghg bijiXi b bcccbc cgaghg hkfkck jcdcXcXcjkkdj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 10101010 10101010 111010110 1110101 11101010 1010101 00110010 1110111 10111010 1110101 11100110 1101101 10101011 1010101 10101010 101011 100101010 1011111 11111110 1010111 10111110 1010101 11101010 1001100 010010 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010101 10111010 1010111 10101010 10110101 10101010 1010011 11001010 1111111 10111010 1010101 11101010 1010001 10100010 1010101 101011100 1110111 11101010 1001001 11101110 0010001 10101010 1010111 11101010 1110001 10101010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines temple is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase darkness connects the lines.
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