This is an analysis of the poem Purer Than Pure Gold that begins with:
O brother, purer than pure gold
Is the soil of my land....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbd bcXabaX adX aX dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 001011 01110 01110 111110 1110011 010100010 101100010 1011011001001 110000101001 1011110 1100001001 01010100101 1001101 10001010 01101101101 110001001001 1101101 10001011011 10001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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