This is an analysis of the poem A Divine Rapture that begins with:
E'EN like two little bank-dividing brooks,
That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dedecC fgfgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111010101 1101001101 1101110101 1111010101 1001010111 111110011101 10111110101 101111101010 1111000101 11111111010 1101010111 111110011101 01110011101 1101000101 1100011101 1111110101 1101010011 01111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long 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; so, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e'en is repeated.
The author used the same word e'en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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