This is an analysis of the poem God Of The Open Air that begins with:

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Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedefafeaebB X gghhggfgfgii X bbbgigibfafbaf X aaibibjbaja bggaa fiidifdikkfkfkffllfmmBb a Xfggbb aaggeee kkhhll Xgggii eeeelbb a mgmffgggagiiaa eleecXceell niooibnfbfififnbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,12,1,14,1,11,5,23,1,6,7,6,6,7,1,14,11,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111101 01001010101 11110101 1101 011101001 0101001 11010101001 1111001001 010001 0101010001 11110101 1001001001 1011000101 011101 0111011111 100101 1 10110101 101101 011101010 10010010 0111010001 1101110111 111111 101101 1001000101 110101 1111010111 1001010011 1 1101110111 1111101001 110111110111 11111101 110101001 1111010110 1111010111 1111010001 110101 1111 1001001 1111110001 110101 0101110001 1 1001110111 1101011001 1101000101 1101010111 1101011001 1111010101 01010100111 01000101 1101011101 110100001001 110101010101 11111111 1011000101 110010101 1101010101 1011000101 0101010101 110101 01110101 01010101 11111101001 010101 0101110101 11001110101 10011110100101 110101 0111100101 01011111 0101010111 1111010101 0101010101 1101011111 100101001001 1001010101 010101110101 1011111101 1011011011 100101 011111 1 0010010111110 00101101111110 00100101101010 001011010010010 1101011111001 110110100100101 10100111010101 1010010111011 1010011101010 100110100100010 110100111101001 11100101001001 101 101001011011010 101101101111010 1011010011011010 110010010011010 10010011111001 10111010100101 10110101111100 101001010011010 10100111001010 10100111101010 10010011010101 111001111111 1010010011110010 1010010111010010 101001011110110 10101001101110 101101101 001011 10111011100101 1 110111 011001 110101 100101 01011101001 11010011101 1101011111 110111 111101 101101 110101 1001010001 1001110111 1101000101 110111 110101 1001001 100101 1001010001 1001100101 11011101 11010 01010 100011 110101011011 1111 11000101 0101010011 1111111101 01010111 0011100101 1111 00110111 0111011111 110101 010001 1111010101 111111 0011101101 110111 1111010101 110101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, thee, in, that, and, lost, their, of, i, has, by, for, breath are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, lost, and, the, him, from, by, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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