This is an analysis of the poem Gloria In Profundis that begins with:
There has fallen on earth for a token
A god too great for the sky.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbccb ddddaeea fdfdbaab eeeegeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111010 0111101 1111011110 0100100 001101001 1111011010 101001110 01001101 1011010110 1100101 001110110 10100111 11101101 111001010 11001010 1110011 1010110110 010101 010010010 0101001 1100001011 1111101 1000101 00100101 10010010 0100101 110110010 10101001 1111101 01011110 0101110 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Gloria In Profundis;
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- history of its creation;
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