This is an analysis of the poem Has Your Soul Sipped? that begins with:
Has your soul sipped
Of the sweetness of all sweets?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bbcc dcdcdc Xefe XdXd gfgf hdhd fhfh egeg ababXhehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0010011 10110 111011 11010 00110 110010 11010 1001 0010010 1011 0011010 1001 00100110 101100 001100 11110 1011 10110 0101 10110 0101 1011 11010 0101 111010 1011 0101 1011 011 10110 1011 10010 1011 01111 110111 110101 101101 1001 0111 1111 101 100101 1011 101101 0001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, faint are repeated.
The author used the same words sweeter, or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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