This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Viii: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified that begins with:
If faithful souls be alike glorified
As angels, then my fathers soul doth see,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbcadXXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101001101 1101110111 11010010100 11001111100 1011011010 1101011110 01001101000 1111111001 11010010111 1110010001 110111000 100101011 1101011111 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; be, by, and are repeated.
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