This is an analysis of the poem Rosabella - Purity Of Heart that begins with:
Though with an angel's tongue
I set on fire the congregations all, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dedecC fgfgcC dadacC ehehcC bgbgcc gXghcc icicee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 11110010101 1101011111 110101 11011101 01000011 110101 11010100010 1011111101 0110010 11011111 01000011 111101 11010101010 1111010101 1111010 11000101 01000011 111101 1101010011 0101010101 111101 11110101 01000011 01001 11010100101 1101111101 110101 11101101 01000011 110111 10110010101 1111010101 010101 000100101 11000101 010111 010101100100 0101100101 111111 11010101 01000011 1101010 1101010111 10010110010 110101 11110011 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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