This is an analysis of the poem The Wandering Jew that begins with:

When as in faire Jerusalem
Our Saviour Christ did live,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdc XeXeXfgf acXXXcXc chXXXgeX eXiXXfhf XjjjXeXe hceckhch clmXXniX XncXaKcX jocoXlXX jpjpfkek eqXXcXXX qlclXXhX Xiaiggcg hXklXXXX mlmllXdK
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 110101 11010101 011101 01010010110 01101 11011101 110111 111101010 111001 01011111 100101 11010001 1011101 11110111 110001 1111011 100111 111111010 1100110 01111110 010111 11100101 011101 101011111 010101 01010101 010010 111011010 111111 11110101 1111010 11011111 111101 11011111 1111010 0101110 1100101 11110111 110101 11011101 010111 1001011 010111 01010110 100101 11011101 010011 11011111 111110 11111101 110111 01010101 01101 01010101 00111 11011101 010111 110101001 100010 11001110 110101 110101111 01011 111111110 110101 01011101 110101 010101001 011111 10111001 1101110 01111101 111101 11000101 110111 011111010 0110011 10010001 010101 010010001 110101 10011101 111111 110101111 111011 11010101 110101 1111100101 010010100 10100111 1011100 1111011 110101 111111010 010111 11000100 0100101 11010111 110111 1110110 01010010 11010111 01001010 010101110 011101 01010101 111101 0111001 111111 01011101 01111 11110111 111111 01010100 11010011 01110110 111101 1101110 110110 11110111 111111 11010111 011101 11010111 011111 110101101 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and, nor, no, of, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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

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