This is an analysis of the poem To The Heroic Soul that begins with:
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Nurture thyself, O Soul, from the clear spring...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbddb eXfeXf X Xccffccf ghagha X hddhhddh eieiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,1,8,6,1,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 10101100101 1101010101 1000110101 0100011111 010101001011 0110110101 110110101011 1111010111 1111111101 1101010101 11001111001 1011010111 11111101100 1111111011 1 0111011101 1111010111 1011110101 1101011001 0111010111 1101110111 1111111101 10111101101 111101000111 11010001001 1101010101 0101110101 1001010101 1100010101 101 00010000100 1101010101 0101010011 10101010101 0100010111 1101010101 01110110101 1101010111 1111100101 0111100101 0001011101 1101010111 01110000111 0111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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