This is an analysis of the poem Like the very gods in my sight is he that begins with:
Like the very gods in my sight is he who
sits where he can look in your eyes, who listens...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXaX Xacd dabXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011011 11111011110 10101011010 10011 10111101110 10111101010 11101111011 11110 111110010101 1101001010 10101011111 10010 10111001110 11101011110 11111101111 11111 010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, my, i are repeated.
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