This is an analysis of the poem Scala Jacobi Portaque Eburnea that begins with:
Her soul from earth to Heaven lies,
Like the ladder of the vision,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXX cXddXcXacddca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 10100010 101 011 00101100 11010101 1101101 11101110 101 101 11101010 1010111 1010100 100111011 111 1100 10001011 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Scala Jacobi Portaque Eburnea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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