This is an analysis of the poem Helian that begins with:
In the spirit’s solitary hours
It is lovely to walk in the sun...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde bfc gaa ahaaX abc fb hai cd aaa Xaa bhjd ik hia ddj ed dfX aga bagc hic lcag XXa flga cce gii kfab djch ag aed ailX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,5,3,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,2,3,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,3,4,4,2,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101010 001001001 010101010 10010010011111 010100110 11001010111111 011110010 100101010 100010001 1011 1100101011 11010 01001010100 0101111011 1011100101 00101101000101001 10101100110 010101010111 1110001001010 111001000101110110 10101000101010 101000100010100 1011011001011 01100101 0110010001010 1001101011 0101100110101011001 0010110100101 1010111 100011010001 1101110111 1011001010100 11000101001010011010 101010110011010100 10101011 010010100010 1110100101 1001011100100101 1100000100100 00010101111 01111001 010011100101010 011100101 01101101 10110 01100110101 010110100110 11010110100 11001100100011 1110111 10101110 1111101001 1111010101 1010101101010 0101101 101101010 1011100 1001001001 00010010 10101001101010 100101010 1110010111 101010101011 111110101 1110100101001 01011110101 1011010110 101011 0101011 001001001010101101 10011100110 111010111010 1100101101100101 10101111010101 11101010 100111001111 101110001 00100011110010 000101110011 11100010 0101001010 0101101100101 110110010001010 1001111100 0101001 10110001 0010110001011 1010110101 01101010101 11101101101 101100101 001010101001010 0111001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, of, and, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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