This is an analysis of the poem Purity that begins with:
Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing
that thy living touch is upon all my limbs. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aX XbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110101110110 11101001111 1110101101101110 11111111001010011 111010111001011111 1010101111100101011 1010101000110110100 011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, that, to, in are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Purity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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