This is an analysis of the poem Sense And Spirit that begins with:

The senses loving Earth or well or ill
Ravel yet more the riddle of our lot.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101011111 1011010011 0100110111 1101111100 0101011111 11010100101 11010101101 1111010001 1011100101 01001101111 11011101100 01010001101 1001010011 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

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