This is an analysis of the poem Meditate, Meditate, The Lord Is In Your Eye that begins with:
Meditate, meditate, the lord is in your eye,
As a divine ecstasy in your inner forehead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcdAB aXXXAB XcdbXXXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010011 1001100011010 010101101 010010010001 101101010011 1001100011010 010010001101 1010110101 101010101 1010001011 101101010011 1001100011010 00100010101000101010111000 0010010000100010010 100101 1011010100111001100011010 01111011010101000 1010100111 111101011101 101101010011 1001100011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, you, meditate are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word forehead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase meditate connects the lines.
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