This is an analysis of the poem The Black Virgin that begins with:
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee
On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddXd ceceXbfb gXcchhih Xhhhdded ejcjaaka cbfbaall cbXbmmem neXeggXg akkkggXg aXeciini
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110111011 11110100111 11010011110 1001010111 1101101101 1111110101 111101101111000 1111010101 110101001011 1011010101 011100111010 1110011111 10111100100 1111110111 01111011010 10001010111 11010010101 10011001100 1101110101 10111010101 1001110101 0111010100 1111011101 0111110101 11111010100 1011011101 10110101001 1111010001 10010111101 11011010111 0011010001 11010101001 1001110101 10011100101 111111110011 1111111001 11111111011 11111101111 10011111010 11110100011 1101110100 11110010101 10110101110 1011110101 11110010111 1101010001 11101100100 1011000100 1101000111 0101110111 11110111100 1111010101 1011001101 10110010101 10111101110 1101101111 0111111100 01010001001 010101100 1111110101 1011111111 1011001101 11111111111 1101001111 01000110011 01010010011 101100101110 1011110101 1011010101 1011000101 101101101001 0111110101 011101001011 11011111010 11010101110 1001111011 0011110111 1001010010 10111101010 01110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, in, and, of, or, lights, nor, thee, can, not, black, on, as, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words something, by, the, on, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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