This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Book And Picture Of The Seraphical Saint Teresa that begins with:

O THOU undaunted daughter of desires!
By all thy dower of lights and fires; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXaXXcccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100010 111101110 1101001101 11111101 11110101001 1111011111 11111101010 11110101010 1011001101 1111011110 11011101 11000100 11011101 11001101 11111111 10110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; all, by, of, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.

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