This is an analysis of the poem He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty that begins with:
O CLOUD-PALE eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaacbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111 010100111 010011001 110110101 11010001001 111110111 010101111 0101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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