This is an analysis of the poem There Is Still Splendour that begins with:

O when will life taste clean again? For the air
Is fouled: the world sees, hears; and each day brings... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabddebe cffccbbcgXhXgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011101101 0101111111 1111010101 0101001101 10010010001 10101011101 0111000101 11001100101 1101011011 1101010101 0101110111 1111001100 01001010101 111100101001 1011001100 0111110101 0011011101 1001110101 0100111111 01001111101 1111010101 1111010001 10110010011 1111010001 0011100011 1001010100 0001000101 1101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

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