This is an analysis of the poem Ego Dominus Tuus that begins with:
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream
Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedefbdfghhXggiGajiegjklflgejXmdjghhdgjegmdedhXgXnaXGhehaknhghXmXcibiciegabijilhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 85,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010101 10111101011 0111010101 110100111001 11111010111 01101000010 1001 11010110 11011100101 1111011101 111111111110 11011011101 111010101001 1101101001 10111010111 1111011101 1001010101 100100011 111 01010100100 1010001100101 1111110100 1100111101 1101 1101101 11010111010 0101010101 11011011010 0111011101 1111000100 11011100101 1001010111 010110111100 0101110101 1101000101 101110101001 0101010101 0111111101 11010001011 01010101101 111011111111 1011011001 0101111100 1111110 1111 11110110010 11100110100 11111110010 0100010101 01010101010 0100000111 0101000100 11000110101 1101000101 11010101 111 1101011001 01000100100 10101011101 1101111101 01111001110 1100110001 0101010101 11101101100 11010100001 0111001001010 01001 1111101 1001011101 1111000101 0101110101 11010100110 101111101101 1110110111 1101111001 11000100111 11011101001 111111001110 1101010001 0101101101 1101110001 1111110011 1001011101 11010101001 11000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3397
- Average number of words per stanza: 628
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, and, we, that, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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