This is an analysis of the poem The Relevant Quotation that begins with:
Thou blessed mother of the universe.
Shed thou Thine haloed light on us. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XcXaXbdXeXba dfg fh XdcXX dXgehdd gXcd aXdgeXhdedc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,3,2,5,7,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101 11110111 11111001100 11111011 101110100 0100101010 010010011 110100101 10010011 0101111 101011 001001 010111101 110101100 11010010 010101 0100010100101 10111000011 11000100101001 1100110000101 111010001000 11000100110100 1001010001011 1010010101 101001011000 01010010 11001101 0101001100110 1011001 10101011 01101001010 11011 01010 1110110011 10101101001 1111101 01101 10100110010 1001010101110 1010111 100101001 00110111 101010000 011101 00101 010111111 10111 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, he, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Relevant Quotation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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