This is an analysis of the poem O Longing Mind that begins with:
O longing mind,
consecrate your being to pure love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd dXXdaeXf gfhdXdgibgehgdXceX XccdieX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,18,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 101110011 1100101010 1011100010101 0101010100100 01001000000100 101110110 1111101 0101001010100 011010110101 0110010101 01101010 11010110101 1111111100 010001100111 10100011010 010010010100 00101001101110 10011001010100 1010101110 1011010101 11001 1010100100 10100100010 001001101110 0101011010 11010001010100 0110110101110 10111100110 10100101010010 00010101000 0101100 101010 110010 1110100101010 101 1010110 11001000 0101110010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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