This is an analysis of the poem The Travail Of Passion that begins with:
WHEN the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;
When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011110101 110101010101 110101010101 1001010010111 01001010101101 101111011101 1011101101001 1001111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Travail Of Passion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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