This is an analysis of the poem A Welcome that begins with:

Because you call yourself Knights Templar, and
There's neither Knight nor Temple in the land,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXb ccXc ddXd eebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111101101 1101110001 0111110101 0101000101 0101010011 0111010101 0101000101 1101100001 01110100101 1111010001 0101110001 0101011101 0111011111 1111110111 1100110101 0101010101 0111111111 1111001101 1101110111 1110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, free are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Welcome;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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