This is an analysis of the poem Carmelite that begins with:
As Death was a-riding out one day,
Across Mount Carmel he took his way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdaXXddX eefggf hhaiia jjjkk klddeel aammhhaddnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,6,5,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 011011101 11101001 1111101 0010110101 1011111011 1110111 110100111 100100111 110101110 1101 10111 111010111010 001011 00111 001011001 101101 101011 101001001 0111100111 111010101 1101011111 01001011 101001101 001011001 1011011001 10110110111 1010111011 00111 001001 010001001101 110110111 10100101 10100101 1010010 011010 0100100001 100111001 11110101 011100101 1111001001 101011001 1100101 0010101 10111011 010111 11001101010 11011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, give, his, on, faster are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word give is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase give connects the lines.
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