This is an analysis of the poem On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple Of Sacred Poe that begins with:
Know you fair, on what you look;
Divinest love lies in this book,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbccddeeddeeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 10011001 01010011 01000101 1110111 110110111 1110001 01011101 01000101 011011 11100111 11001010011 01010001 11011101 1110111 1100101 11110101 0111111000110000000100001010010100001010101000010110010100110110111000100001011001011010100100010000101101010000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1031
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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