This is an analysis of the poem Palm Sunday that begins with:
Because it is the day of Palms,
Carry a palm for me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcbcb XbXbXbXabcbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 100111 100101010 110101 111101010 01110111 11110101 111101 0101010100 1011101 11101110100 101110101 111100111 110111 111101010 10110101 1100101010 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, sea are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words carry, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Palm Sunday;
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