This is an analysis of the poem Beauty Imposes that begins with:

Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,
Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXa XXa bXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101000001 1101010100 011111 1001111100 1001001000 011001 10010100101 1101011000 0100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • 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 is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Beauty Imposes;
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