This is an analysis of the poem The Now Jerusalem, Song Of Mary The Mother Of Christ (London: E. Allde) that begins with:
HIERUSALEM, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece ebcb fgeg Xhch XBCB dhfh cici jkjk XjjjXaBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10001101 111101 11110111 111111 11010001 111101 01110101 111111 1111101 110111 10110111 1101001 11110101 110101 111011011 100111 11011100 110011 11011101 100111 11111000 111001 11110111 111111 11011101 100011 111111010 111111 11010101 110111 011111001 110111 11110111 1101101 11010101 110111 11011000 110101 11010111 100101 10001101 111001 11110111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; when, no, there, thy, evermore are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, o, there, thy, would are repeated.
The author used the same word thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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