This is an analysis of the poem Salutation that begins with:
In one salutation to thee, my God,
let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bXb ab bXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110000111 11110111101111 1011001 11001001010 11111111101100001 11111001010110001010 1100101001100001 101011110111 101101 11111010000101 01100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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