This is an analysis of the poem The Splendour Of God that begins with:
The drunken stars stagger across the sky,
The moon wavers and sways like a wind-blown bud,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcdX
- 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: 0101100101 01101110111 0111011101 1011101111 010011100101 010111001001 11010100011 010101101111 11100101111 101011011101 001110100101 10010101101 1111000111 101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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