This is an analysis of the poem The Veiled Statue At Sais that begins with:

A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge
To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdeXafdeghcfiX ahjciXaeX XhkaiXXXckdXXaX cgklgkil addjXjghj bhjljcXeXamXXXX hkdmXbfflXfcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,9,15,8,9,15,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010110101110 010101101 0101010001 11110010101 111100101010 1101000101 01011101010 010101000101 101010101010 0111011101 1101110111 0101010100 10110010100 0101000111 01011011010 1110010111 111101110100 11110111001 01011001010 1011100101 0101010100 111010111110 101010101110 10010101000111 10111010101 101011101010 11010111010 010100101110 0101111111 1111010101 0101010100 110111100101010 100010000111 11010101010 10101110101 0110001010001 0100011101 1011110001100 0110101001110 0011111011 0101110011000 0111010101 0101010100 1011010111 10010011111 11101010100 1101001101 01111111001 1001010101 0111010101 10111101010 0101010001 01011101110 10110000010 01110111001 1101001100 10001010001 0011010111 0101011111 00101110101 1001010101 1110111001 100011111011 01010101001 101100010001100 10101000111 1001011111 1001000111 1110110101 100010111010 1111010100110 10010 01010101010 1110011101 1101111101 1111110101 1101010111 01010001011 1101111111 11010110110 01000111010 1011010101 01010110110 11010100100 1011110111 111101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, i, his, behold are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word deprive is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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