This is an analysis of the poem Waking that begins with:
OPEN, my soul, thy stately portals wide ;
Open full wide, and let thy King come in !... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa cdcdbb efefgg ahahcX dbdbgg didijjXacacbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 1011111110 1111010111 10110101001 1101010101 01010100001 1110110101 0101111101 1100011101 1101110101 1101010101 11010011101 0101010101 10010011111 11110111001 1101010111 11010010111 1100001101 1101010101 1101010111 1111110101 1111010111 10111001101 01011111010 1101110001 0101111101 1101100101 1111010001 1001010111 1001010101 1001110101 1001010111 0101010101 0010000100101 1101110001 1111010101 1101111101 1011111101 1001011101 1101100101 1011111101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; with, or, and, her, open are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words open, and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Waking;
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- idea of the verse;
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