This is an analysis of the poem Week-Night Service that begins with:
The five old bells
Are hurrying and eagerly calling, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbb cdecdeffX eaaaagg aehaehiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1100110010 010010 111100010 001000101010 110010001011010 010011001010 0101 11101111 01001011111 00100101 110011111001 1011 010101110100 11011010100 10111 0101 101001001 110111 1011111 010100111 0111111011001 10010110101110001 0111 11100111001 10110100111001 1101 0111101001 10111 0010111110111 010011111111 00100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; her, and are 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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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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