This is an analysis of the poem Microcosmography that begins with:
He looks beyond the veils of night and day;
He hearkens in the silence, and has heard... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 1100010111 010111101 0101111101 0111011101 0101110101 0101010011 1101110101 11110101101 1111111111 11110100101 1101110110 0111111101 01011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, with are repeated.
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- summary of Microcosmography;
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