This is an analysis of the poem O Light Of The Supreme! that begins with:

O Beauty non pareil, O Beloved,
Do burn the fire of beauty and splendour...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXbcXbXbXcXXaaXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101010 11010010110 0111 11010100100110 11100101 011100011 10100011011 111111 1010100 0101010 10101 1110011001010 10101 010010101010 001001010 01011110010101 1101101 110001 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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 words in, o are repeated.

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  • summary of O Light Of The Supreme!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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