This is an analysis of the poem Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves that begins with:
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous
Evening strains to be tíme’s vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXXbacdXdcX
- 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: 1010101001100100010 101001111011011011 011010100110110101001 10100111111001001 1100101110101010101111 11101100111111111 100001011111111 01100101111111011 1001101100110011111 101110111110011111111 1111011001001011111111 1010111111111101111 111100111111111101001 110101110011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1179
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 83 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', her, all, of, to, tw, black are repeated.
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