This is an analysis of the poem Vanity Of Spirit that begins with:

Quite spent with thoughts, I left my cell and lay
Where a shrill spring tuned to the early day.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeffddffggddaXffddccaaddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111111 10101100101 11111101 11011101 11011100 010001001 10011111 10110011 1101011101 1111111101 01010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 01111101 10110011 10010011111 01010000101 111101011 10111111 11100111 01010100 010101010 110101010 11011110101 01111010011 01001011 11011111 01111111 10111011 11011111 11110001 11000101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; her is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.

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