This is an analysis of the poem Were My Whole Body Festooned With Eyes that begins with:
Were my whole body festooned with eyes,
I would gaze at my Master with untiring zeal....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101101 111111001001 111111001011011000101 1111011011001 110111011 101100111101 01110010110 011001000001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; would, my, to are repeated.
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