This is an analysis of the poem The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: Vi that begins with:
Rose, you majesty-once, to the ancients, you were
just a calyx with the simplest of rims....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac dede bbX cbc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111001001010 1010001001 1111101010010 000100100 0111100101011 0101001011 1110010010110010 01101001000 11010100101 0101011000 1000100111 10111101101011 11000100101 111101010101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, of are repeated.
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