This is an analysis of the poem Leaving A Lofty Place that begins with:
No pedestal should be loved so great,
To satiate a promising of a permanence determined....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB cXadADE ABADE X cXe fddX fdd XXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,5,1,3,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111 010010000100010 0101011001 0010111101 0010010100 11011001 111001010011 11101 0111011010 110010111 010010000100010 111001010011 11101 0111011010 111111 11010110101 101110010 1101011010 11 11110110 011010 1110110001011 01100101110100 1101011010 0100101111 1 110110110 001010101011 1 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word higher at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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