This is an analysis of the poem Before The Throne Of Beauty Xxvi that begins with:

One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and directed my weary step to the spacious alley. I...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101001100100101001000101010110100101010101001001001010010010111010110101000101001001001 111101101001111011111100101010010 110110011110010010010101001011110100101010101001010110001011111011010011011011111010010 11101100100100111111111111111110010111010110100101101010111010101101010111011011111111101101110101010110010100110110010111010100110010100010100 101110010010110011011111101011001110011010101101110111110100100100001000101010110100100001101000111010101010100101000101 111100010010111010101011110101110010100011110010011010011010101011010110101110 1001101001111101011010100101011101000101011101011001001110 1101001101111111011100111110111011011101111010000010110001000010101100001111101111011011110001001010101011100111010000 101001001111010101111110111101001011010010110011011101001 100110111111101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 323 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 60
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i, my, to, me, she, ', in, you, which, that, your, beauty, it, fear are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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