This is an analysis of the poem The Everlasting Voices that begins with:

O SWEET everlasting Voices, be still;
Go to the guards of the heavenly fold... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Metre: 1110101001 1001001001 1101001010 110111011 111111111 1110101101 010101101 1110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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