This is an analysis of the poem The Soul's Destiny that begins with:
In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light,
Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon brow of night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddXaa eeee ddff aaee ccbb ggee fhhcgg iigg ggafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010101010101 100100101010101 101010011010101 100111101011101 111010101110101 001010100010101 101010111010101 11010101000110101 101010101000101 110101010011111 101011101011100 1 1100010101100101 111010101111101 1010101110111001 1110101010011001 11010001100111 0010010101011101 1010101010111001 1010101010101001 111010111010111 101000101010111 101110100110101 101010100110101 111010101010101 1010101000101001 101010101010101 101010101010111 1010101001010001 101110101110101 1001110100010101 101110100010101 110111001110101 1111101010111 01 100100100010101 1111111010101 01 101000100011101 1110101010100101 101111101010101 11010100110101 1101110010101 101010101011101 111010101010101 10100101111010 1 100101111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, 'twas are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Soul's Destiny;
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- history of its creation;
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