This is an analysis of the poem Love And Beauty: Ii: To The Same that begins with:

Oh Soul! that this fair flower dost so mirrour,
Ask of thyself, saying-'Soul beautiful,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbaabcXccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11101101110 1010101100 1101110101 11111110110 11110101010 1010010001 10011010111 11110111010 1111111010 010101100 11010111010 011110110001 01011110100 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; soul, oh, god are repeated.

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