This is an analysis of the poem Second Sunday After Easter that begins with:
O for a sculptor's hand,
That thou might'st take thy stand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdeed ccdaad aafggf hhibbi aaabba ddjbbj kkcccc hhlbblXeeegge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 111111 1111010101 1101101 110101 1111010110101 011111 110111 01010100111 010111 1101111 1001010101001 111111 010101 11110100101 1111001 110101 110101011101 101101 011101 1101111101 111101 111101 110101110101 010101 010011 01000101001 110101 010101 011111111111 100101 111101 1101010101 11011010 110101 1101110100111 111101 111111 1111011101 0101001 1111001 010101010101 111101 010111 10110101101 110101 1101111 111101110101 111111 110111 11111101001 010101 010111 110101010111 101101 101101 1111001111 111111 111101 1011001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, he, flashed are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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