This is an analysis of the poem The Sovereign Poet that begins with:
HE sits above the clang and dust of Time,
With the world's secret trembling on his lip.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba ccdd eXXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 00110100101 1111010101 0011111111 0101010001 101101 1101010001 1101010001 01001000101 0101111110 11011001100 010101 0101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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