This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of A Soul that begins with:
Who can say “Thus far, no farther,” to the tide of his own nature?
Who can mould the spirit's fashion to the counsel of his will?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXf fgfg bfbf fhfh afaf hdddXidi fe Xe cdcd didi XfXf adad ffff ajaj ebeb XjXj akdk fbd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111000100110 111010100010000 1010101010101010 001010100110011 11101001011101110 101011101010001 1110101000100010 111101101010001 11111011101001111 1000011101110101 1011101011101111 101000101110101 1111011010101110 111011101010101 1110101001101010 01010100010101 10101010111010010 101010100010001 1110110000101010 101000101010101 01101010010001010 01010101110101 1001101000100010 101010101110111 1110101010101010 11101010110101101 1010101001001010 1010101010011101 1110111100111010 0110010101010011 11101001000101110 101010101010001 10101010101011000 0001010100010101 1011001110100010 101000101011111 1010011001101010 101010101010111 1111101100101000 101100101010011 1110101010101010 1011101010111010 1010101010100110 1010101110101010 1011101110101010 101010101010101 1111110000101110 101001101011101 1111101000101000 101011111011101 1110100011101100 111010101000101 1111011010101110 11101010011010010 1010101010101010 1111001010100010 1010101000101010 001010100010111 1010001110101010 111000101111101 1111111010101010 111110101010001 1011101111100010 101010100010001 1111111100111011 0010111100010111 1111111010111101 1110101011001001 1110101010101110 101010101010101 10101110101011100 111000111010101 1110101000101110 101010101110101 0010101000111110 001011101010101 10100101010111010 1010100011101001 1111001011100110 101010111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, to, who, can, thou, her, in, by, and, with, for, i, fled, long, me, not, truth are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and, for, fools, in are repeated.
The author used the same words who, i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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