This is an analysis of the poem Songs With Preludes: Dominion that begins with:
When found the rose delight in her fair hue?
Color is nothing to this world; ’tis I... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefgahbefdbdheeediXXjjbbghhhhhiXb beded Xecec Xeeee Xegeg bfbfb beeee Xgaga XXihX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010011 1001000111 1101011111 1111001101 00111111000 1111001111 1101111101 10100011001 10101110111 101000110111 111101 0100 0101111101 0101001111 1111110101 11010110101 1011011011 1111001111 11001011111 0101110011 0100010111 1111111111 110111 1111 1101011110 1101011100 1011110101 1111000101 11000101001 0001010001 10011101 110 1001010111 1001011111 01011010101 1001100101 11011 1 111001 1110101 10100101 10001101 1 0100111 1100101 0101101 11101101 1 1111001 1101011 1101001 1111001 1 1101011 0010101 11101011 111101 1 1110111 1100111 1111101 11011011 1 00111101 1011111 11100011 111101 1 1100101 1111101 11001111 1111111 1 1100101 1011011 111101 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, we, thy, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, there are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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