This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Antiphones that begins with:
I -- In Church
Thou whose birth on earth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbbc dedde dfddf dgdXg hhhhh dhddh ibiib gjggj fkffk bebbe ldlld dmddm hmhhm mdmmd fnhhn ocooc ljllj clccl kdkkd kckkc a hnhhn fXffd gkggk dfddf ddddd fdffd cfccf fffff efeef mjmmj edeed eeeee jmjjm lfllf dhXdh hehhe dkddk Xcooc cfccf pcppc a ofoof ece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11111 10101 11111 10111 01101 10111 01101 10101 10111 01011 11111 11111 01101 10111 00101 11101 00101 01101 100110 00101 11111 11101 10111 01101 10101 11111 01110 11101 11111 10110 10111 10101 11101 11111 10101 10111 10111 10101 11001 11001 10111 01111 11001 01101 10111 11101 11101 10111 11111 10111 10111 11111 11101 10001 00100 00101 11101 11101 11101 11001 10111 11111 11111 10101 11111 11101 11011 01101 10111 11101 11111 10111 11111 01111 10111 11111 11111 11111 10101 10101 00111 00111 110111 10111 10111 11101 101001 10101 10101 11101 11111 10111 11101 10111 10111 11101 11101 10101 10101 10101 1111 11111 10111 11111 01101 11111 11101 10101 10111 01111 01111 10101 11111 10101 100111 11111 11101 11111 10111 10111 10111 11101 01111 11101 10101 10101 11111 11111 11111 11111 11101 11111 10101 11111 10101 11111 11101 101101 00101 10111 10101 11111 10101 101001 11011 01101 11111 11111 101001 10111 11101 10111 10101 10101 10111 11101 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111 11101 11111 11101 11111 11111 10111 10111 11111 11101 11111 11101 101101 10111 11111 11111 01101 11111 111001 10101 11101 01111 11101 11111 01101 10111 11111 11111 11101 10111 11001 11111 11111 11111 11101 11101 0110110 11111 010110 111110 11101 1011 11101 11101 11111 11111 11101 11111 10111 01111 10111 11111 11111 10101 11111 11110 10101 10100 10111 10111 10101 11111 00111 00101 10111 00101 10101 100111 11101 11111 11111 10011 11111 10111 11101 11101 10101 10111 10111 11101 11111 11101 11101 00111 10101 11101 01101 10111 11111 11101 10111 11101 11101 111001 11111 01111 111001 11111 10011 11111 10111 10111 1010110 101011 111010 11111 101001 11111 10110 11101 00111 00111 01101 11111 10101 10011 10101 10101 10101 10111 10111 10111 10101 11111 10001 10111 10101 10111 11111 10101 10110 11101 10101 10111 11101 10001 11111 11110 10001 11101 11111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 63
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 303
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, bid, strife, of, out, ye, one, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, from, bid, without, out, though, we, at, what, none, into, all, and are repeated.
The author used the same words god, yet, we, ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases god, trod, one connect the lines.
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