This is an analysis of the poem The Living Temple that begins with:
O Covenant! O Temple! O trail pride
Of God’s high glory! Set your snowy feet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabba acaXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100110111 0111011101 1011010101 0100010110 1001010001 1001010101 01100101001 1101010111 1111010111 10010110101 1011011101 0101110101 01010011111 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; o is repeated.
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