This is an analysis of the poem Homily that begins with:
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out
If your tired unspeaking head...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bacbca cdXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011101 01101001 100101001 11010001 11010101 10011101 01100101 11011101 11011001 111100101 1110100101 110110001 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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.
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