This is an analysis of the poem Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:

Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies,
Bathed in soft airs, and fed with dew,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccb adadeeed fbfbgggb ahaXgggh iaXaaaaa jijikkki iXiXgggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 10111101 11110011 010111 01010101 01011101 11001101 0100111 101101010 11110111 111101110 0101001 11010101 10010111 01011111 110111 11010101 11101111 011110101 0011001 010100111 11011101 11010111 111111 11011111 110111010 110110011 11001111 01010111 11011101 11111101 1101010 11001101 11111101 11010100 111101 111110101 01111101 11011101 111101 111101110 11111110 010111010 110101 11110101 110101101 11011101 111101 01010101 11011101 11010101 0111000 101010101 01011101 111101011 11011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, as, our, to are repeated.

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

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

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