This is an analysis of the poem The Feast Of Stephen that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdccecfXfcgXX X hdijXXXaXidbck X flghXecdccckii X llclmemlcecijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0101100101 1001001101 0101010111 10011100110 1001110011 0111001101 1101000100 11011101110 0111010111 11110111010 10110010001 1101010101 11001000101 1001001011 1 001101001010 101100101010 100100100010 1101010101 10010100010 10110111000 1100110001 011101011001 1110111000 01010101010 11010011101 0011010001 01010111010 01101100101 1 10110101110 010010010101 0101111011 0101100100 1001100100 1110010110 1011011101 1101111101 11001010001 1111000101 111100100110 0101011111 01010011010 0101111101 1 10010100101 001010111110 0111010101 1001101101 11010110111 10111111010 10100111101 1101011001 1000101110 0101011101 10011101010 1001110101 1100110101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, and are repeated.
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