Love's Omnipresence by Joshua Sylvester: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Love's Omnipresence that begins with:

Where I was base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dadaXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111100101 11111111001 1101011101 01010010011 11111100101 1111110111 1101010001 100010011111 0101111101 1111111001 110110101 11011110101 1000110111011 1000111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • 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; as, you, and are repeated.

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

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

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

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  • summary of Love's Omnipresence;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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