This is an analysis of the poem Xxiii. The Truth that begins with:

And there was a flowering garden in the sea,
in a sea glossy as the sky; and a song...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdaeeebfbXghieebjeeceXiGHeediahdfkjGHejcXcefdkGHXdXak
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010001 00110101101 011001111 01011110 101101010010 010100011 100101010 111010111 011010011 11101010010 0101001011 111010001 10111010 1010101011 100110111 101001001101 001010010 11010101 01011101110 0101100100 1010011111 0101010010 11100111 0100101101001 11011011110 11111111 1010111011 100110111 101110110 1111101110 101011011 1110011 11000101001 011001111 11110101 11111111 11111001 01110111111 1010111011 100110111 1011101101 11110110 1001011 100101111 111001101001 1101101 11111 11010101 01101111111 1010111011 100110111 1011011101 0100110001111 101101011 111111111100 10101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 431
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, i, me are repeated.

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