This is an analysis of the poem A Rhapsody that begins with:
There is a God most surely in the heavens,
Who smileth always, though His face be hid.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeedf ghgbiejdXklmai hhhdianneobgafodeegaanaegggjbod ddbkgadXaapoajlejinabjdjangbopejagll bbgaedgnboloXdd lXklcqoggabcrdemqdp hagcolagna cocco roXrXXmommo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,14,31,36,15,19,10,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011100010 1101110101 1111010100 0101100101 10001101001 1111111101 0101110110 1111010101 1100011101 1001110101 11100110111 11010101010 1011010101 0111110101 0111010100 00110010111 1011010111 1001111101 0101110100 1101100101 0101010100 11010111001 0111010111 1001110101 0111101001 1101110101 0100011111 1101010111 1101110101 1111110101 1111011101 10101111101 0100111101 1011111111 1011110111 1111110011 1011011111 1011011111 1011111101 1001010100 1111010101 1011110101 01010100100 11011011111 1111011011 1111110011 1101111101 1100111111 1111110100 11110101001 1101000101 1001010101 1101011101 1111011101 1111010101 1111111001 1101010111 1101101101 1001000001 1111010101 1101111101 1011111111 1111010101 01111100111 0111010101 11001011111 11001000101 1101010101 0011010101 0011010101 11010100101 0101101101 1011111101 0101110101 1111001111 111101001001 1001011111 01001001001 01010101001 1011011101 0101011111 1111010101 0111010111 1001011011 1111010101 1101010101 1111111111 0111011101 1101011101 1011011101 1111111101 1111110111 1111000101 1101110101 011101011 0111110101 0111011101 10111011101 10011110101 1111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110100 1010011111 1101111101 1111011101 11111000101 11110111010 0111101111 10110101010 0100111100 01011100111 010101001010 01000111010 1011011100 1101010001 11111101010 110111111110 1111101100 1011111111 11011111010 011101111010 10111001001 0111001111 1100110101 1101011101 1111110110 1101111110 1111010101 1111010101 1101011101 0101110101 1011110100 1101111111 11110101010 111111111 111110 111010 0101011101 11110101010 1111011101 111111 111010 0101011101 01010101110 1101111101 1110010 101110 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, you, me, i, should, not, if, and, my, which, new, four, months, on, each are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words there, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Rhapsody;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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