This is an analysis of the poem O Pulchritudo that begins with:
O Saint whose thousand shrines our feet have trod
And our eyes loved thy lamp's eternal beam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dadacC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 1111110101 11010000011 1001010011 1111111101 1111000111 11110100111 1001011101 11001000101 0001110111 1111111101 1111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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