This is an analysis of the poem Rapture -- To Laura that begins with:
From earth I seem to wing my flight,
And sun myself in Heaven's pure light,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddeed ffXbbX ggbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111101011 111111 111101001 11111101 011101 11010101 11011001 0111001 111101010 1100101010 011111 11011111 0101001101 11110010 011101010 1001111010 1111100 11001101 11010101 110101 11000100 01010011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
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