This is an analysis of the poem A Thanksgiving For F. D. Maurice that begins with:
The veil hath lifted and hath fallen; and him
Who next it stood before us, first so long,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd efef cgcg hehe iiii efef agagXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110111011 1101011111 1111010100 0111010101 1111010101 1001010011 1001010001 1101011101 100100111001 0111110111 11010010001 0111110101 11010010001 1101100001 1111010011 0111110101 11010101010 1111010101 10010100010 1101110111 1001001101 0101011111 1100010101 1111011101 10110010111 0101010111 10010100101 1101110101 1111011101 1111110111 1111010101 1111011111 1111100111 0111010111 1101110001 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; for, his, of, and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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