This is an analysis of the poem Light that begins with:

HAIL holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,
Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccXXbadcXcXecafcaXghaaXfcigXhccaXeXeefjajakafkXccjdic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101100111 1010101001 110111001101 1101010001 101001101 1100011010 11110101001 1101110101 01010111101 0110010101 0101010111 1001110100 1111010101 10010011101 0101101011 1101110101 0101101101 1101010101 1101010101 010111010 1111110101 1111010111 1001111101 0111011111 1101011111 1110011101 1101010101 101111111 1001010111 11101101 11110111001 10110110001 1101100101 1011000001 110011100 1100110101 111111001 010010101001 1101010101 1001011001 1001110101 1101010111 1101011101 1111110101 1101110101 0110010101 1111010101 0100010101 01010101110 1101110111 1101010101 11010111010 01011111101 1101111111 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 417
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; light, and, to, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light is repeated).

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  • summary of Light;
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  • history of its creation;
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