This is an analysis of the poem A Spiritual Manifestation that begins with:

To-day the plant by Williams set
Its summer bloom discloses;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbb cded fbcb gXbX hfXf ijbj bjbj bfbf hdad jjaj Xaaa beXe cXaX gkak ldbd bgjg ajjj ajaj bkak aXhd mdld gfkf jhah mdfd jhlh hkhk jjlX hXkd lkbk mdad Xdld bdad cfhf bkjk bXik jkjk jjjj iXcj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01011101 0101010 01010001 0101010 11010101 0101110 11010100 0101110 011011101 0100110 11010101 0111010 101111001 1101111 11010111 0101011 11111101 1101010 11010101 1100010 11111101 0111010 11010011 0100010 11010101 1101010 1001010001 1100010 11010111 0101010 11010011 1001010 101111101 01010010 11010101 10100010 11010101 0101010 11010101 1111010 11110111 1111110 01010101 1100110 11000101 11110010 11000101 1101010 11011100 0111010 11001101 0100010 11110101 0111010 01110111 0111110 11010101 1111010 11110101 1111010 11010111 1101010 11010110 1101010 11110101 1101110 11110001 1101010 11010111 0100010 11011101 0100010 11010111 0101110 111100101 110001010 11010101 1101100 01110101 0101010 11011111 0111010 11111111 1101010 11110101 0101010 11111101 1101010 11111111 0101010 11010101 0101110 11010101 1111010 11010101 11001010 11110111 0101010 01110111 0101110 10010101 1101010 11001101 1011010 11011111 0111110 10010101 1111010 11011101 1101100 11011111 1111010 01010011 0111110 010010101 1111010 11010101 1111110 11010111 1101110 11110111 0101010 11011111 1111010 11110111 0111010 11010101 0101010 11110001 0101110 11010001 0101110 01111101 1101110 01000101 1101010 11010101 1101010 01000101 0101010 01110101 1111010 111100101 1101010 11000101 0111110 11011101 0101110 01010111 0101100 11110101 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, thy are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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