This is an analysis of the poem The Buddhist that begins with:

There never was a face as fair as yours,
A heart as true, a love as pure and keen.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbXcXc bdbXdecec fgffgfcfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111 0111011111 1101010101 100101110100 1001000101 1001001101 1101011001 1111111101 010011 11011111010 0111111111 11110111100 01011101010 10110010101 10101000101 1101110011 1011110101 0100011 1111111101 0101111101 1011000101 0101011001 00111011001 1000101001 1011011101 1000001101 010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; as, no, its, own are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Buddhist;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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