This is an analysis of the poem Passion Becomes Piety that begins with:
the guilt-glazed love lay on andal's breasts,
thick and heavy as him....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab aXc bX ddX da aaX bc bacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,3,2,3,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111101 111011 1001 110111011001 0100001001 1001110101 01010101010 11111 11001101010 110100100110 0101101111 1110010100 1101 1001010110001 1101010100 1101001101 10110101011010 10010 100101101011 1111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
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