This is an analysis of the poem Song Iv: Draw Near And Behold Me that begins with:

Love is enough: draw near and behold me
Ye who pass by the way to your rest and your laughter,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabc XddXdc daadacXabbabc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111011 1111010111110 1110010011010 101001111111 1110110011010 11111011011 111111111110 1111111010010 0001110011010 100110010110 101001100110 11111011011 111110111110 010110111011 1111111110101 1011011110010 1010011010111 11111011011 1000110111011 110110111110 1011010011010 101111111111 1111011011010 11111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me, of, my, ye, your are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word not at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Song Iv: Draw Near And Behold Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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