This is an analysis of the poem On A Prayer-Book, With Its Frontispiece, Ary Scheffer’s that begins with:
O ARY SCHEFFER! when beneath thine eye,
Touched with the light that cometh from above,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccaaddaaeffeccacghhffiijhjkkllffmmbbaccaccjjddcjjmmjejXjannccgccddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1001110001 1011000111 1111110111 10001000101 1111000101 0111110101 000100110101 0111010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010111 110101001 1101101001 1101110101 1101011101 01001110001 1111011101 1101010100 1001110011 0111110001 00101010111 0101010101 0111000101 1001110101 10010101001 1101100101 0101010101 11001000101 01010101001 1111011001 01011000101 11011010101 11110010101 1001010101 01001111101 1101010101 0010101110111 01010100101 10000101001 0111010001 1111110101 1001000111 10110101001 10110010011 1011010101 1101010101 0111011011 1101000101 1101010111 110101000111 0101010101 0101010101 110011110101 1101110 1001010101 1111010111 0101010101 1111010111 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001110111 1001000100 1001001111 10110110001 10010001101 0011011101 10100101001 1011011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3121
- Average number of words per stanza: 549
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, songs are repeated.
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- summary of On A Prayer-Book, With Its Frontispiece, Ary Scheffer’s;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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