This is an analysis of the poem The Apparition Of His, Mistress,Calling Him To Elysium that begins with:

THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS,
CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab X ccddcceeccffgghhiijjggkkllcXlliXiimmXeggXadXnnXeccccggbbhhjjmmbbgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,66,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010100010 10100100 10100 11111101001 111101101001 1100011111 101100101001 1101110101 0101110111 01110101010 11110001010 1101010101 0101010111 11010100101 1101110001 1011110101 10010101001 1101011111 11011010001 1101010101 1111010111 110101011 10011010101 1111111111 1101110111 11010011001 1101010011 111101101 0101010111 10011100101 010010110 0111010101 0100110001 0101010111 111100100 1001110101 10010010101 1000111010 1111010001 100011011110 11111111010 1101010101 1111011101 01001010111 0101010111 1110011010 11001010100 1101011111 11010101101 1110110111 0100010100 0111010101 1101010111 1011010111 1011110011 1101011111 1101011111 1100010111 1111110101 0111010101 100101001011 0001111101 1100010101 1111111101 0110010101 0111111101 0110010111 11011101 11010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 981
  • Average number of words per stanza: 172
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, and, their, of, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, of are repeated.

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