This is an analysis of the poem The Temple that begins with:
Enter the temple beautiful! The house not made with hands!
Rain-washed and green, wind-swept and clean,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabb cacdd eXecc adabb bdbff aXagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100011101 11111111 010101 11010101 10110111 01110101110111 11011101 0101111 11011101 01011101 10010101110001 11110101 010101 11010111 10110001 10001001001001 01011101 010101 11010101 101110101 11010100101101 10011101 011101 10010111 11011011 11011100010101 1101001010 101111 11010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, no are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase here connects the lines.
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