This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Songs that begins with:

The Bride and the Daughters of Jerusalem
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's....

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdXce ebede afdgeebh Xdibdgj a kjbiif lkejXX KMbhdfn dbbbibhh jkXbkie AIKB icbbhlbj eehdcaible gbjjjo bjbBGEihX o XHobXH eXaXpje AIKB d gjh bhlbmeh hdfilka daXh i KMjJi dqba hoj oXd Bb GEnjke jdXdbb jbgjdb aqdji jXddjXbbbd icdhdj jjoggi d XqkXph h
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,5,8,7,1,6,6,7,8,7,4,8,10,6,9,1,6,7,4,1,3,7,7,4,1,5,4,3,3,2,6,6,6,5,10,6,6,1,6,4,6,5,6,1,4,16,1,4,7,3,8,2,9,3,6,4,6,8,1,9,13,8,5,1,5,10,4,2,2,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101000100 010110100 11110010001 11101011 01001001010 11011011 11101011 11101101 0111100010 100110101 1001011111 00111 111110111000100 101010 10100100 1101101111 010111011 1101001001 1110100010 111101111 1111111101110 1110110111 111101111001 10101010 011111100110 11111011001 1111010101 011011 11011111 00100010010100 1111001010 110101 10111001 01010 101101010 11001010111 01001011010101 111110111 101001011010010 00100100 0111111 01111 11101 011111010110 101101 01011110 111001 1101010 10100010 1010011 101101010 101010101001 1010100101 111100110101 10111011 111001001 101010111 11010 101010 111101 01101011 10111011 111111000100 1011101001 1111110111 111 0101010 01110 1001010 100101 101001011011 011100111 11011010 10011010 1010111101 11111111101 1101001 0101011 01001101 0100100101 101001001011 011101011 101001011001 01111111101 11111001001 001010001 1111100 11111 11011 11100010 11010010101101 1111101 1010011110 11001010 01011 1011101 11010 1011011011 01010010 01100 1111111111110 11111111 10111101010 00110011 101111110 11111111 010110101011 011111111110 01101011100 111111110 111111111 011111001101 100010001011 111111000100 1011101001 1111110111 111 010010 10011010010011001 01011101 01100010 010110100 101011010 0010010 1111 101001 10011010101 0101001 11001010100 0010100 1101011010 0101101 010000010 011110101 101000100 1111100101011100 00110001011 00100100 10010010001 0111001 0111111 01111 111010111 11010101 1010111 1111010111101 1110010 10100111 11010010 111101010 111010 11011010010000111 11010100101011100 101101010 110101 11111111111 1101010 01011 1011101 1011001001 10010101 111111 101101 101010011 010100 10010100 001010110 00101 00100010 111001111011 111001101011 011011 1101111011 111001111 10101101110 11111110101 101111011 101011001010100 010100011011 001110101 1111100100000101 100100 100110 1001100 0110101 1110 010110 010010 0101010 110100 01111 1111 101110 101011111 11010100010 110101 1110011011011 111011011 111011010110 11111011 1111 1101001010 00101010 1111110 00010101011010 100111011 1111000 1110101 111001001 111111 111101 11111 111100 10101001101001 11100111 11101001010 111101 111001101 01010001 11001010 1101010101111 111111 111111111 1111111110 010110101011 1111101 0100011011101 11111000100 01110101111 111101 0110011 10101011010010 11100110 10101011010010 111111 101001110 01001110 01010111 01110111010 011101011010010 1011101 0111010101110 01110101101 01111110010 0100111001010100 01111001010110011 0100011001001010 01011 110101010 00101010011 11000100 010001001111 10010101 11100110 1001010101 1111101 101001100010 001010 010010 101010 111100 1101001 11001010 11100111110 1010100 1001110010 1011101 1111011 11010101 101011 11110101 1110010 101001101 1101110010 101001000 11100111 11101 110101 1100110 1111000011 1001010010 1001100110 01010110 10110101 1110 10111011010 11011101 11001110010 1110001001 01010010 101100110 101000010 1101101 11111010001000 01011100 01011111011 101100100 10001000110 11001110111010 010111110 01001001010 110010110110110 110010101101010 11111111111 11010100100 111010010 1010100 11010100100 11001010 110110101 101011110 010100100 1111101111101 0110010011 11101001 1110110011 101100111 1101110110001 101011110 101011101111010 11110 100101110101 111100 100100011 11010 11110001 11100100 1111100010 11100110 10010101 101000011 1011111 0100101 111111100101111 111111111010 11111110 11010110 11111011111 1111001 1111111001101 11011 111101011 001011000 011101011 10111011 11111000100 1111110111 0111 10111 100110100100 10010010 1111100101 1110111 11111111 111010111 1010111 110111 100010101 011111010 11010101 10101011 1010110 00111101000111 011000100 1101010 11111 11111110 0011110101 01001101010010010 1010011010001010 1101111110 111001111110 100101011000 1110101010 10011011110101010010 1101010011 1110011010 11110111110 11100010 001010011 11010 111010 101100110011 01010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 72
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 392
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, me, thou, my, our, thy, him, i, whom, from, with, have, beloved, as, his, to, her, and, return, like, let, us, thee, would, vineyard are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, as, thy, behold, let, i, from, thou, how, a, and, his, to, she, return, there are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, thy, 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 thee, me, gold, voice, myrrh, her are repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase spikenard connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Song Of Songs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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