This is an analysis of the poem A New Orphic Hymn that begins with:
THE PEAKS, and the starlit skies, the deeps of the fathomless seas,
Immanent is He in all, yet higher and deeper than these.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee bb ff gg gg bb bb aa eeXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011010101001001 100010111011011 0110110101101001 001011111101011 0100111101001001 111001010001010100 1100100101101101 111001001001001001 011100101110001 111101101001001 0010010111001101 1010111110110101 101101001011001101 0100101001001011 011111111101001 0111101111011011 01000100100111101 101011011101111 1111010101001 10111000010101011 1110010101110101 10100101101001101 01001001001011001 00100100101001001 0110110100101001 110010111111001 1110111010100100 101001001101011001 1011010110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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