This is an analysis of the poem Introit : Ii. Images that begins with:
I who austerely spent
My years of youth, nor lent...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff bbgg hhbb ggXX eeaa iijj bXii jjff ggaa XXkk llmm iiee aaaa bbgg ddXaXggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 100111 010011 0101 110111 0101001 100101 1111 100101 010101 110100 0110 100101 110101 010011 0101 110100 011100 0101110 0111 010101 0101001 010100 0111 010101 010101 011101 0111 0101001 101101 100101 0101 011001 011100 1000111 1011 01001011 010111 010001 0111 111101 011111 010101 0101 010100 011100 101011 1101 1100011 010101 0101111 1011 010111 010111 010001 1111 010001 010101 110111 1011 1101011 011101 1101011 01001 110001 100011 111010 1101 110101 110101 110101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, singing, around, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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