This is an analysis of the poem St. Mark's Day that begins with:
Oh! who shall dare in this frail scene
On holiest happiest thoughts to lean,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe XXghhg aagggg aadffd eeiiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 1100100101 11010111 11100111 11001101 111111001 11111101 11110111 01001101 010101001 110100101 010100101 1101101001 10110110 110001001 11110111 010111001 11011111 101100101 01010101 1101101 11011101 11010101 01011101 01000111 01110101 10110011 11010111 10010101 01001101 11010101 11111101 11011101 11011101 10110100 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; on, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
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