This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Vii: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow that begins with:

At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaXbbacdcddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011010101 1101010101 0111001000 0110110101 110101101101 1111110100 0111111111 1011110111 1101111101 1001111101 1101010011 1111110101 1110011110 1011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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