This is an analysis of the poem The Temple that begins with:
To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising.
Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXb XXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111101110 10011110101 01010101010 01111101010 001001111 111111111111 111010111011 10 111011011100 111010110101110 10110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, no, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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