This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Light that begins with:
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca cXcXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101110011 1011011101 0101010011 0101010101 1101110011 1111010101 0101011101 1111001001 1101110011 1011010100 1101010111 11010101101 1101110011 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Golden Light;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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