This is an analysis of the poem Drown Me In Your Light that begins with:
Drown me in your light,
And let it shine on me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC ABCC DDEf DDEf ABCC GfGb XCbCCDc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 110111 10101 110001 11011 110111 10101 110001 111 11111 00101110 11111 111 11111 00101110 11111101 11011 110111 10101 110001 1111111 1101 1111111 0110111 111 1111111 111 111 11111 0010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word could is repeated.
The author used the same words drown, pull 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 up, please are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word seas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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