This is an analysis of the poem A Hymn To The Virgin that begins with:
OF on that is so fayr and bright
Velut maris stella, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccbcX dXdXccXbX ebeXfXXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111 101010 1010101 10110 11001101 10011111 110 111101 10 101111 10100 111111 11100 0110101 1011101 100 0110100 100 10010011 1110 1110101 10100 011101 10010100 100 11101 100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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