This is an analysis of the poem As Weary Pilgrim, Now At Rest that begins with:
As weary pilgrim, now at rest,
Hugs with delight his silent nest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbaaccddeeXfffXXggaahhXXggiibXXXXbXaddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 10010101 010101111 1111101 1001011 010111001 01011111 11011111 0101101111 110101111 110101111 11110101 11011111 11111101 11010111 11111101 111101111 1100100101 01011110 11111101 111101001 11111001 11110011 11110101 01010101 11111101 11011110 110101101 11111100 110111001 11111101 00011001 110110101 0101011 00110101 010010011 01011001 010111101 1111011 10110101 110101101 111111101 11110111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1553
- Average number of words per stanza: 295
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, a, in are repeated.
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