This is an analysis of the poem The Harps Of Heaven that begins with:

On a solemn day
I clomb the shining bulwark of the skies:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaccddbecbXfgggXgedfahgcdiijbjibibklglbgbmbgggikiffmgbnnnnbXXacXgiickXbbhaXXaXhacXncnXiccnaanhfXnichiiniffXccgchdXadgcaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 122,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1101010001 110101 110101 110101110101 1010101001 1011100111 1111001100 1101011101 11 11001111101 11100110 01110111 111101 1111010111 1001011111 11111100110 11110 01 0101010001 01010100 111 01001100100 110 0101010001 010011 0101010101 1001001 1110010111 110101010 1001010101 111111 10010111010 1101010101 1110010111 1111010101 0101010111 1101011101 1101 01110001001 1100010111 11001010101 11011101001 0101101101 0101010101 0101110100101 11 1001011011 0101010111 1101000101 1011010101 100101001 1111010101 11010010010001 1111010011 101010011101 01010010001 1101110011 010100101011 111001 1101111111 11110101110 0101111101 0110111 10010100 111010010 01101101 111111 0111 00110011010 11110010100 11110010011100101 11 010100 1001010001 110101100 11100 1101 110101010101 1001001010100 1101111111 01010111 0101010111 11101 1101 11 10111010 1101110111 1001000101 110111 1110011101 11 111101 11010001001 11010101010 111111101 010101010111 11011100111 0101001101 1111 01111100010 1001011 1101000101 00101 11011101 1100110100 1101011101 001101 11111 1101000101 1111110 1101010111 1111100100 11101111 1011 111111 1011 0111010111 1011001101 11000101 111011000 111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 804
  • Amount of lines: 122
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; by, and, i, of, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, this are repeated.

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