This is an analysis of the poem To Cardinal Manning that begins with:
I, wakeful for the skylark voice in men,
Or straining for the angel of the light,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdeced
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001011101 1101010001 0111110111 1101111111 1101110101 01110000110 0100010111 1111010101 0001000101 1111010011 0101010101 10010000101 1100111011 1101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- 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; i is repeated.
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