This is an analysis of the poem The Least Possible that begins with:
DEAR goddess of the shining shrine
Where all my votive tapers burn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa cdddcd eebbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11110101 110010101 111100111 010011111 10111001 01011001 01110111 010011101 110010101 11110001 11010101 11111100 110101111 01010101 011101011 11010111 011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of The Least Possible;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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