This is an analysis of the poem What Is Divinity that begins with:

What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXaXXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001000011 1001011101 1111010001 0101111111 0101110001 10010101010 0100110101 1001110101 1001001100 1001010110 0101111101 1101110100 0101010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of What Is Divinity;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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