This is an analysis of the poem Vesalius In Zante that begins with:

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
I loved light ever, light in eye and brain—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccac dXcea fdghiddf dbejeklhmkhgcaekdXn cahglbgdf jolbcehdaddccbchdccXglaoXaijef dgjhddpqder diiksXadedcbbjdbachdh dhjnhhhcdbaXrlagjamddhchlg XcaclhdhbrcncdtiXband scedbcagdldbgedhadjcgX aibpaoqXccdhaccagpdhXhtXrealhcfaccghchdbbhchadcrgXhhcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,8,19,9,30,11,21,26,21,22,54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111010111 1101001101 11000101010 1101010111 11110 11111 0111011101 110101100001 1101011001 111111 0100 1101010101 11110010111 0101100011 1101010111 01000101000 1101110101 1101010011 01111100111 0100011111 1111110001 1111010111 1101010101 01010101010 1111010101 010000101001 1100010100 11110011110 1100110011 1101010101 0111110101 0111111101 0111000101 10110100110 1011011111 0101011011 1111010101 1101111111 1111110101 10110010101 1101110011 1101000110 1111110100 1111110110 1111010101 1101011100 1111010001 1101000101 0101010011 0111011101 0110000101 1001010101 1111010001 0101010011 010011011010 1111111111 1001010111 0101010101 1101001101 1111010111 11010010001 1011111111 11111000101 11111101010 1100010001 1101011000 1101110101 1101000101 110100101001 1111011101 1111010111 1101111101 0111110101 1101011011 1011110101 1100110100 11001110111 11110110010 100101111 0101100111 1111011100 11110010001 11110101010 11111101101 0101110001 1100110001 0101010 111 11110101001 0110111111 01010100010 0101010111 11111101100 1101110111 0101111101 1101110101 1111110001 1111110101 1111010001 0111011101 1111110101 1101101111 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010111 1101011111 10010100011 1011010111 11101111101 1110010001 1011111101 1101010111 01001001001 1101010111 11010010111 1111011111 11001110001 1101010111 1111011000 010010011101 0111110110 1001001101 0111010101 1011000101 11110010101 11011101010 1101010101 01111101111 1111110101 0101000101 1101101101 0111000111 0100010 1110 0111010101 1111010101 11010100010 1111010111 11110110001 01011010111 1111111111 1101110011 11010010001 1101010111 11110001001 0111101101 1101001101 0111111101 0101111111 10011000100 0011010101 1101011101 0001010001 1011110100 1101100111 1111010111 1101110001 0111010011 1101111101 11001000101 0101010101 10100001001 1101011111 1101100111 11111111001 10100110101 01101110101 11110011101 0101001111 1111010001 0101110111 1011010001 1111101111 0100010011 1111100101 1101100 111 0111011101 1111101101 1111011001 0011010001 01011100001 1000010101 1101010101 01010011101 0101010101 1111010100 1011110101 1100010101 1001001111 0101011101 01001010101 0101011101 110010101101 0101000100 1101011101 0101010101 010010101001 1001110101 1101111100 1101110101 1111011101 11001111101 1101011011 1011110101 1111010101 0101111101 01110001111 1000110100 1101110101 1101011101 1111111101 0101110101 1001000111 11111111010 1101111101 0111010111 0111110101 1111010101 1111010001 1111010100 01010101010 1111111101 01110010001 11010 11011 01010101011 11010101001 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 739
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 231
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, my, her, i, he, it, of, and, so, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words had, so, for are repeated.

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