This is an analysis of the poem To Harriet -- It Is Not Blasphemy To Hope That Heaven that begins with:
It is not blasphemy to hope that Heaven
More perfectly will give those nameless joys... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedcffagahaijkljmacbkcbfgdXeXaejnagmnaiabfbeglckblcbflilfhaklmajjccXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110001110 1100011101 1101010001 1101110011 01000101111 1111010101 1011010111 11010011010 1101011001 1110111111 1101011111 01100111010 11001011101 1001100111 1101010101 0110010101 1101110111 01010100111 1111010101 1101010111 11010101010 110010010101 1101011111 10011110101 1111010011 0111010101 1101010101 0101110101 0110010101 1111010101 0010010011 1101010111 11011100110 010010001001 1101100100 110010101010 0101111001 0101111101 11101101001 01110101010 11010101111 1101011101 1111011101 1101011011 0010011101 1111001111 1101010111 1101110111 1000010100 1111000101 1101010001 1111010111 10010100111 01010100101 0101110101 1011010100 1101011101 01010011101 1101011101 11110101001 0101111111 1101010101 1101110101 01110100101 0111001111 11110010001 11110000111 11010100001 11010110101 1011110101 1010001100 11110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3084
- Average number of words per stanza: 544
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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