This is an analysis of the poem My Christian Name that begins with:
MY Christian name, my Christian name,
I never hear it now: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbda ea adfdcaga chhhfaga ididcaha caXaeaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110101 11010100 1011111 11010111 111111 11011111 111111 11011101 011111 11010101 010101 10110111 111101 110101010 111101 10110101 001111 11111001 110111 11010101 010101 10110111 011101 11011101 110101 11010111 101111 11111101 100111 11111101 011101 11011111 001111 11110111 001111 11110111 1101001 101111010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; my is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines name is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word name at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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