This is an analysis of the poem Three Souls that begins with:
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,
And gained permission of the Guard to wait.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccXX ddeefffXccaX ggXdaahhiiXX hXjjddaaddgX Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,12,12,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101101001 1101000101 1001010111 1011110100 1111011101 1101110101 1111011001 1101010111 1011011101 1111001101 1111110111 1101111101 0101010111 1101011001 01011001001 1111010111 1101011101 01110111001 1101011011 1111011101 1101010101 1101111101 1101111101 1001010111 0101010101 1111010101 0101010111 01110100101 01000111011 1001010001 0101111101 1101011101 0101010111 0101110101 10010101001 11010101100 1111110111 1001111101 1001011101 1101011100 0101011101 1101011101 1111011101 0101000101 1101010101 11011101100 1111010101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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