This is an analysis of the poem We May Not Climb The Heavenly Steeps that begins with:
We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXX caca dede fafaXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001 010111 01110101 1111101 10001101 001101 11110100 110101 01000101 011101 11101111 111101 11011111 110111 01110011 110001 11110011 1001111 11111111 111111 11011101 0100111 11111101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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