This is an analysis of the poem Beneath A Veil Of Milky White that begins with:
Beneath a veil of milky white
Stands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba cXcX babb dbXa beea XdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101 1101010100 01010101100 011010101 010010000100100 0110001 10001010010001 00101 0110011110 1010101001 010101111010 10101010 00100100010110 11001110010 001010100 10101001100 01001101010101 1101100100 010101 1010010 1010111011 1010110 0011000101 00100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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