This is an analysis of the poem One Little Glimpse Of Heaven that begins with:

One thought of holy ecstasy
Breaks on my spirit's sight... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadXdefgfddXdagagedadghhhbijicjdjXfhXbabajjjdkgkfjjjjbjbcjgjhhhhhljlXjfj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 111101 10110100 010111 1101010 010011 11001000 110001 1101010 110111 1101010 011101 1111010 110101 0011010 0010101 1011010 110101 1101010 011101 1101010 110111 11011100 111101 11110010 111101 1110110 010110 1101010 100101 1011010 110101 1111010 010001 11111101 110101 0101011 010101 11000010 011000 1101001 1101110 110111 11011100 110111 111101010 100101 1101110 001111 0101010 110101 0101001 010101 1001010 010101 1101010 100101 0101010 011101 1001010 010101 01001010 010101 1101010 01011 1111010 010101 0101011 010111 0111010 010001 1001010 0101110 01000101 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 377
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; that, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, before are repeated.

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  • summary of One Little Glimpse Of Heaven;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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