This is an analysis of the poem St. Bartholomew that begins with:
Hold up thy mirror to the sun,
And thou shalt need an eagle's gaze,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gcgc abab gbgb XhXh gagX agag gcgc hghg bgbg haXa gcgX hhhh hghg igig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110001 11111101 11000101 11010001 10101111 01100101 111100101 11010101 1100011 11010101 111100101 11010101 01011101 11111011 10011111 01010101 101110011 10011111 11010101 010100101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11110011 1010011110 110010101 01111100 01000101 01011111 10110101 11010101 111010100 10101101 11111101 10111111 01000101 00110111 11011101 11110111 01110111 1101001001 11011101 010100111 01010111 11110101 11010111 01011101 11010101 11111111 11110111 01010110 11110101 1000111101 11010011 11000111 110111100 11010101 01110111 11010101 11010101 110001001 10110101 10110111 10110101 11010111 11000101 011101001 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; we, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shade is repeated).
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- summary of St. Bartholomew;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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