This is an analysis of the poem Of The Spouse Of Christ that begins with:

Who's this that cometh from the wilderness,
Like smokey pillars thus perfum'd with myrrh,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcXXdefefeece cgfgffbcfcbcbcddddhbhbieaiehbhbdfdfejej
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011000100 1101010101 1001010001 1101010100 110011011 0101010111 0100011001 1111001001 1111100100 1101001100 1101011100 01010101010 1110011111 1101011001 1011010101 0101000101 111110001 1101010001 1001000101 1111110100 1110110001 011100101 1011000110 1001000111 11111111010 1001 111111 11010101010 1111110101 0101111001 01010100101 0101010101 0100110001 1101110100 1001010101 0101010111 1110110101 1001010101 0101010101 1011110101 10111101101 1111010101 0101010111 11010 11101 0111010111 1101101101 10010101100 1101001111 0111011010 1101110001 1011111101 111101010 0101110101 1101010111 1101110101 1010110101 01110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 221
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, with, now, of, instead, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, instead are repeated.

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  • summary of Of The Spouse Of Christ;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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