This is an analysis of the poem People In Church that begins with:
Penned between oaken pews,
in corners of the church which their breath stinkingly warms, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba bacX XcaX dXXd aaba XaaX XXXXXaaaaXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 0100011111001 11110101001 1010001010110101 100100100001001 101101101 011010101110 10100101000 1010001010010101 10011111111010 111001101 101101110111 101110111001 00101111010 101010100 101011101 11001110101101 1110101001100101 11101101001 100101010110 110101010101001 10111011110 111011111010011 101100011010 11001000101001 01101001010101011 1000101110 101110110100 10010111010 10010101001010 11011001010 1010011101010010 1010101101111 010001010001110 01000010010 1111010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, and, the are repeated.
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