This is an analysis of the poem Beauty Xxv that begins with:
And a poet said, 'Speak to us of Beauty.'
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X b X a X c X d d X X d X e a e X a X d X c X b fXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101010 11111011111001101011111 11111000110010011 001101011001110 10110110011011011 1010011100010111 10101101011101011 0101010110001100110110 011011001011110010010 1010111101001010 1001101011010011010010 11010001011011001001 1110010101001111010100100100010 01010111110001100101 1001010101111010001011110101001 111111010 101111001010101 110010111100 00101101110111 11001100101010 001010111101111 11011011111111011111111 0010101010110101001 1100100100110101011001 100100100111010101 111111101 1000100101010010 1110100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, you, us, she, her, ', have, in, say, not, but, life are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', mirror are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', mirror at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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