This is an analysis of the poem Lord Of Unnumbered Hopes that begins with:

Lord of unnumbered hopes, unnumbered prayers,
Immaculate dream, unknown, unknowable...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddc dXeeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 101000110001 01001010100 0101110101 0101110001 0111101111 1110110110 1101101111 1011110101 1111010111 1101000100 0111100001 1011111111 0111011010 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; we, in, each are repeated.

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  • summary of Lord Of Unnumbered Hopes;
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  • history of its creation;
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