This is an analysis of the poem Inscribed that begins with:
To the Elect of Love,--or side-by-side
In raptest ecstasy, or sundered wide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdXdcceeXdcdccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011111 01010011001 1111110011 0101110101 10110101 110001001 01110111 01011101 11110111 11111111 011101110 011101010 11100101 11001101 11110111 10010101 11110111 10011101 0100111001 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; or, my, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of Inscribed;
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- idea of the verse;
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