This is an analysis of the poem The Young That Died In Beauty that begins with:
If souls should only sheen so bright
In heaven as in e’thly light, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbbc XXdXXXXc eedXdXXc ffggXffc hhgXXiic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 010011011 111011011 0111010 1110111111 01010111 11010101 010100111 01010101 11011111 11111111 1110110 11011101 01010101 01010101 01010101 010101111 01111101 11010101 1111010 11011111 11011111 11010111 11011111 11011111 11010101 11011101 11111010 11011111 01011101 11011101 100010111 01110111 11010111 11010101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, s, feair are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word beauty at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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