This is an analysis of the poem At The Gate Of The Convent that begins with:

Beside the Convent Gate I stood,
Lingering to take farewell of those... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd eeee XXaf fgfg ahah aXah igig jkjk alal hmhm ejej haha Xaka nono kbkb djdj bgbg lplp Xmdq agXX kbkb abab mfmf bdbd lilX khkh dada bhbh nknk imiX cecX kXke nhnh hihX hfhf kaka kiki alal fafa kckc hbhb hmhq cici cici aaaa mhmh kfkX aaaa acac ebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010111 100011101 01110100 01111101 11010111 11010111 010011101 11000101 01011001 11010101 100101111 01110101 01101010 10101101 10111101 10111101 11101101 01111001 01110101 11010101 11110101 01011111 110001001 11000101 01011101 110101001 10011101 01011111 100101111 00010111 010010101 11010101 111001001 11100101 01010111 11010001 11001111 11011111 01110111 01111111 10010111 01011111 10111111 01111101 10011101 01110101 11010101 11111100 11111111 10110101 11011101 110011111 11110110 101010101 11010111 01010101 110111001 110010111 10010101 10011111 11010111 010010001 11111111 11011101 10111101 11011101 11011101 010010101 11010111 11011101 11000101 11010101 11110111 11111101 11011101 11110101 11010101 110110011 01110101 01110100 10011111 01110101 100110100 01110101 11011111 01010101 01110101 01110111 01011101 11110100 010100111 10010001 100111001 11011101 11110101 01010100 10110111 11111001 11010111 110100101 11011111 00110001 01010111 10011101 110100111 100100101 01011111 11011101 11111111 11010101 11111101 11110001 11001001 01011101 10010101 11011101 11111101 11010101 01111011 1011111 1111001 11010111 11111101 0100100 11010101 11010111 100100101 110111110 01011111 110101110 11010101 11110101 111101111 01111101 11110101 11011101 11110101 11100101 01110101 10110101 01011101 01110111 01010101 01010101 01111111 110011101 01010111 01010101 10110111 11111101 11010101 01010101 111111011 11111111 111111001 11111111 11100111 11010101 11111011 01011101 11010101 01010101 11111111 00110101 11111101 01011111 10010111 10010001 111110001 11110101 01010001 11100100 101001111 110100001 11010001 11010101 11110101 11111101 01011101 01110101 11111101 11011101 11110111 11111001 01011101 01010101 10111101 110111001 11110101 110101101 110101101 11010100 001100101 11011101 10010101 10110101 11000111 11010101 01011101 110100101 01110111 01010111 01010101 01110101 11110101 1111001001 11010101 01110101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11010111 110111001 110100111 11010111 11110101 11010101 11000111 11110101 11010101 11111111 10010011 10110101 11111101 01010011 11010011 01010101 101110101 010010111 01011101 11010101 10111111 01010111 01010101 11111111 011101001 11010101 11010101 01111101 11010111 01111111 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 244
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, i, his, of, have, you, loved, love, not, who, like, my, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, his, why, of, that, who, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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