This is an analysis of the poem O For A Soul that begins with:
O for a soul surrendered of all guile!
A plain white soul with nothing on it writ,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabXcdcdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010011 0111010101 1101000111 1101010011 1001110100 10010111101 1111110100 01011101110 1011110001 1111011100 0101010001 0101011100 1111111111 11111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, thus, its are repeated.
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