This is an analysis of the poem Think Of The Soul that begins with:
THINK of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc dXec fcb ghh XXbb eii ggg ei Xdafd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,3,3,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1101110011010011 11010101 11111111001 10101101 110101011111001001 1110101111110001 1 1001 11110010110011101 111 0101010101111001 10010001101010110 10011 0101010100100101 010101010010100001 011100010101001 10100100110110 1001110111 101111010010 1001111100010 10100001 1101110101100100 10100100001 1011110001 1111110101110 1010111000101 00100101 11111101011 11111010111010101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, you, of, manhood, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words recall, think, have are repeated.
The author used the same word think at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul, dying are repeated).
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