This is an analysis of the poem Altiora Peto that begins with:
O for a vision of the perfect light
To shame the splendour of the morning star!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdXdaee Xabaff ghghdd hihihh igXgjj kikXeeXcbcbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000011 0101000101 1101010100 1011010101 1111111101 0100010001 01010011101 1111011110 1111111101 0101010101 1111100101 01001000101 01110101010 0101010101 1101011101 10001000100 1011001111 1101100101 110100110101 1111110101 0101011001 1101010101 1111011111 0111010001 1101011101 1101010001 0111010001 11010101001 0111110101 1101010101 101101110101 1001011111 1101010100 0100010001 0101110111 1101010111 1011110101 11110101101 1101010101 1111110101 1001111001 1110000101 0111010111 0111010111 0111010001 01110100101 0111111101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, twas, a are repeated.
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- summary of Altiora Peto;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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