This is an analysis of the poem Gliding Over All that begins with:
GLIDING o'er all, through all,
Through Nature, Time, and Space,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1010111 110111 1011010010 0100011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Gliding Over All;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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