This is an analysis of the poem The Book Of Hours Of Sister Clotilde that begins with:
The Bell in the convent tower swung.
High overhead the great sun hung,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdd eeffgg ffffhh ggffii iijjbX XgiiXX jjeeee kXggXi ddkkff ddXikk bbjjaf kkXfgg kkggll iiiXgg ddiikk eellee cbggXg ffkkhh hXfXXh ggeemm nnoogg kkgggg cbffpp ggkkbX kkddhh ggkkff iihhee oohhhh eeiimm jjddgg nngggg mmllmm qqlliX iXgggg hhbcaa ffllgg iii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 11010111 01010101 01101100 101 1011 0101011011 10100101001 010110111 000110101 01110 11110 11100111 010100101 110111101 1111110101 10101 1101 110100101 111010101 00100110101 11011001011 101101 1101 11010101 110111011 110100101 0100110101 001001 1100 10101111011 10100111101 110110101 10101111111 10101 00101 1101011011 111110111 0100100101 110101001 0101 10101 11101101011 1101011010 010111001 111111111 01000 10101 1000111001 1011101101 1001001011 101110101 10101 101101 110011101 010101101 11011100 101111010 1111 10101 100100101 010010101 1101101010 1110011010110 10110 110010 10100101011 11010111 1110001100 01011101011 01011 001011 10010111 1101101101 0101111001 10010111 0101 00101 01011001010 111001001010 111010101 10010100 11110 11110 011101001 1011011101 010101001 11100110101 01001 0101 0110100101 1011011011 110101001 110111111 1011 0101 010110100 10101111 1000100101 0111001001 1010 10101 1010101011 11000101 0011000111 10111100 1010 101010 11010101 010110101 010101010 010101110 1000 11010 11010111 10101101 0011001001 010111011 0101 10101 0101010010 0101010010 11001111001 1011100101 01010 01010 011101100 110000101 01010101 010111001 001101 01001 1010010100 100101111 111111111 110010101 01011 01101 110110111 1101010111 110010111 0101010011 11001 10101 1110110101 10111101 1110011111 11110101 11011 0101 11010111 0111101101 1100101111 10101101111 1001 001101 1011001001 011010001 111110111 111011101 10101 11101 01011001 11011011 01010101 11010101 0101 1111 1111101011 10110111001 010101101 110111001 0111 1001 011110101 111010101 01010101 00110110111 01010 11110 011101111010 1101011110 110010101 11111101 1011 0111 1010101001 11110111101 111111101 1100111101 101 10101 011001100101 1011110111 1101010101 11011100011 01011 001000 010011000111 1011101101 110010111 10011101 10111 11011 0101001001 111110111 0100101101 101101100 01110 0110 110011010 1010110010 11101001 10011101 1001 101 0100101011 10110101 011111001 100011100 10010 11010 010010100 110111011 01010111110 11110110 0101 1111 110101001 11010101 100111011 1101100011 1101 00101 1011101011 111111111 01011011 110011111 1111 10111 1111111010 101011111 0010011110111 1011111001 11010 011010 1111111011 11111101100 1110100110 11111111 010110 010010 0100101101 11000100101 110110111 10100111011 00111 11011 111101010 101111110 01111001001 110110101 1101 1011 11110111 101001010101 00100101111 010010001 11010 111 01101011011 1010111001 01010100 01010101 101 01001 0110100101 101010111 1111000110 10010011010 1101 11100 1011111101 0101110101 0010110111 1100110101 101010 1111010 010100010011 1011101111 1010101101 0111110001 11111 11011 01001111 01111111 01010101 01001101011 0010110 010010 1110111001 01011101 0010100101 01010111 01001 10101 01101001001 101111010 0100101101 010100101 1011010 01001010 0100100101 1101100111 111101001 00100101111 011010 01110 010101111 0011111 1100101111 11101001001 100010 110110 0110011011 0110001101 1100101010 01001001010 11001 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 57
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 331
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, so, her, his, it, had, she, and, i, ', you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sister, she, i, the, his, and, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same words the, his, she, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, ', them are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase done connects the lines.
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