This is an analysis of the poem Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above that begins with:
Pleasant are Thy courts above,
In the land of light and love;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXccc ddeeffgg bbhhiijj kkcceedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 0010111 1011101 0010111 1110111 1010011 1010011 1110101 1011111 1110111 10011101 00100101 10100111 1011101 1101101 1010101 1011101 1000101 1000101 1010001 1110101 1111111 1110101 1110111 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1110111 1111101 1110101 101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, thy, of, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word happy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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