This is an analysis of the poem Beauty Arise that begins with:

Beauty arise, show forth thy glorious shining,
Thine eyes feed love, for them he standeth pining ; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaA ccaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111110010 11111011010 10110101110 011101010 1001111101 1001010101 1001010101 0111110101 100110011100101 1111010101 101001010101 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; io, hymen are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word io is repeated.

    The author used the same word beauty at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase beauty connects the lines.

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