This is an analysis of the poem L'Envoy that begins with:
Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word,
Now in a voice that thrills eternity, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXbbaXcdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001100101 1001110100 1011110101 0101010111 11011111000 1101011100 1011011100 1111011101 1011000110 11001000101 1101000101 1101001110 1101111101 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; now, in, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, no are repeated.
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