This is an analysis of the poem An Astrologer's Song that begins with:
To the Heavens above us
O look and behold... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababCBCB cdcdefef XdedegXg chchdbdb dbdbfefe dedeegeg ababdidi ijijCBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010011 11101 010111 11001 1100110 01111 1010110 11111 111010 111001 110110 111011 110110 11011 011010 11001 11110 110111 1100010 01001 110010 110011 110110 11001 11001 111011 101101 101001 1011010 00101 110010 11001 010110 001101 011110 11001 110010 11001 1011010 11111 1100010 11011 110010 11001 111010 11011 111110 11001 1101001 11001 1101101 11111 110110 11111 111110 11011 111110 001001 111010 11001 1100110 01111 1010110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, the, our are repeated.
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