This is an analysis of the poem The Chapel Royal St. James’s, On The 10th February, 1840 that begins with:

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ONCE more the people meet, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbccX dccdeeX fggfXaX bggbbba bXXbhha iggiaaX gffgddX haahggX fiifccj kjjkbba kiikffX laalggX gddgddX cbbceeXXbaabgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 110101 0101010101 0111110101 011101 1001010101 1101000101 1 111111 0111110101 0111010111 1011001 10111100110 1011110101 1 111101 0101110101 01010010101 110111 11110010111 0101010101 1 100101 1011010101 0101000101 110101 1011011101 0001010101 1 100101 1101000101 1001011111 110111 0111001111 0110011101 1 100101 0101001111 1111010101 111101 1001111101 1011010101 1 110101 0101010001 1011111101 1101010 0101001101 1011010101 1 111101 0101110101 1001010101 100101 1101011101 0101001101 1 111101 1101101111 01010010001 111001 1101011001 0101010100 1 101111 11010011101 10110100111 100101 10110100101 1111010111 1 011111 1101100101 11010110101 011101 0011111111 1011110101 1 111101 0100110101 1101010111 110011 1101100111 1101010101 1 111101 1111010011 1100110111 110001 11011100111 0101011101 1 111101 10110100101 0111010011 111101 11010110101 1101001101 1 110001 1101011101 0101001101 010101 11001110011 11010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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