This is an analysis of the poem A Vision Of St. Eligius that begins with:
I.
I see thy house, but I am blown about,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baba cXca X cdcd aaaa X efefXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111111101 0111010111 1101010111 1101110111 11001010011 0111010100 11010100101 1111010101 1 11111110110 1011110111 11110111010 110101011 1101111111 1111111101 1101111101 1101110101 1 1101111111 1101110101 1111011111 1111010111 01100011111 0100110111 1101011011 01111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, no are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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