This is an analysis of the poem Glorous Heart that begins with:
Swift and straight as homing dove,
Heedless, so its flight be flown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbDc efecfDc XgXhgDhXdhdchDc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1010101 1011011 11111010 1010101 1001 11101010 10101010 1010101 10111010 01111110 1010101 1001 10101010 1110111 1010101 1110111 10111011 1110001 1001 11111011 1011101 1010101 1110111 11111010 1111101 1001 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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