This is an analysis of the poem Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:
It is so--ope thine eyes, and see -
What viewest thou all around?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd bbbb dede bbbb fgfg hghg ibib caca baba bdbd jeje kaka dada ljlj mcXc bjbj ldld bdbd enen jmjm ajaX
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00111111 1101101 01010100 110101 00110100 0101001 01111101 11011 10011101 110101 01111101 111001 11011101 0100101 01010101 0010101 110010101 001101 11110111 0110101 010010111 010101 11111101 110101 11010101 110011 1100111001 111111 11110101 110101 10110101 010111 110011001 111101 10010101 1111001 11110111 110101 11111101 101111 1100101101 110111 10111101 011111 11010101 010101 11010111 110001 11110101 100100 010100101 010101 11111011 011101 111101001 110011 11010101 0111010 11110101 1101010 11010101 110011 1110101100 111100 1010111001 1100101 10011111 101101 1011100101 1111001 11010111 110111 101110111 111111 1100111 110111 101111101 111101 11111101 010111 100111101 111101 11111101 011101 101111111 010001 11111111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, we, long are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, thou are repeated.
The author used the same word yet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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