This is an analysis of the poem The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe that begins with:
Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXbccbbddeeffgggbbhhhbfXiiiiii jjkkllhhmmaajjjbbjjnnooiiXhppqqrrrssqqqjXjjhXbbhhfffqqbbbbaadXdnnnnbbjjaXjjjkkbbaaqqsssaaajXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,93,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 101101 111111 101101 0101010 1111101 010101 0100111 010101 110100 111111 1111001 011111 111111 110101 110101 001110 110100 100100 100111 111101 110111 111111 100100 100101 110100 11110 1111 011101 111101 110111 101001 111111 111111 010111 100101 010111 111101 100101 111101 010100 111100 011100 111101 011111 011101 111101 0111100 110101 011101 101111 010001 111110 011101 001111 111111 1101001 111101 111100 110001 111101 110111 110111 110111 101100 111111 111101 111100 111101 011111 111101 111101 011101 11010 111111 111111 101101 101100 1101001 11101 111110 011100 011111 1100101 111111 1000110 010110110 111001 011100 101111 110101 111111 100101 010111 010111 0100111 011101 010111 011111 101101 111101 010101 111101 010101 111111 111110 110011 110111 111111 101111 110111 101101 100111 011111 101101 1100101 011111 011111 101101 011101 101111 011111 010101 1100111 1010110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1744
- Average number of words per stanza: 324
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, seven, air are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, of are repeated.
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