This is an analysis of the poem Saint Maura: A.D. 304 that begins with:
Thank God! Those gazers' eyes are gone at last!
The guards are crouching underneath the rock;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefdgefghibddfjdfbciiffXXefkbegifchefifdelmfiegdafeifdbehfaidfnXdanmcakbodegea eaifhiXipqXlbabdrcehnaafbkafoXXafklaaiaXqekfkefXdindgccdambsaeqmddgfcbsicedbaXfXeniXnfcpakitjiaohfbe aimallectcrfadcfnekbnisedemlnaahtcfkctlrcaiadbf qnXhrcqdiidgfnege X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 81,100,47,17,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 0111010101 0111000101 0101010111 1101111101 0101110011 1101011001 1101111111 1101010101 0101111111 1101011111 1100110101 1011110011 1101111111 110011001110 1111110101 1001010101 0101011001 1101010101 0101010101 1011110101 11010101111 11110101111 0111110101 11110101111 1111001101 1101011111 10111101110 0111011111 1101110111 1101111111 1111010101 1011001001 1001110101 1001111111 1101011111 0101010101 1111111111 1111110111 1101011101 1101011111 1111110101 1101000011 1111111110 1011111101 1011010101 101111 11010111001 11010 110101 0111111101 1111010101 0101101111 1101110111 1101111111 0100111111 0111101111 10010110111 1111011101 1111110101 1101010001 1111011101 1101 110111101 1111011111 01010101010 1001010111 1101011101 1111010111 1111010101 1001011111 11111100101 1111011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111111100 1100111001 110101010010 1111011111 1101001101 0110111111 0111110101 1111011111 1101010111 1001010111 101100100101 1111111111 0101111110 1101110101 0101110001 0101111111 11100101010 1111110101 0101111111 11110 11111 1111011011 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101010111 10110110111 1111111111 0111011111 1101110111 1101010101 1001011100 1111100101 1111100101 1111011111 1111011101 1111111101 1101011101 1101110111 1111111111 1111010101 1111110101 1111011111 1111110111 1101111111 1011011111 1111011111 0101101111 0111011111 1111111111 11110111011 1111011111 1111110101 1101011111 1101110101 1111111101 0111110011 1111111111 0101110111 0111001101 0111110101 01010011011 1101111101 0111011111 01011111111 1111010101 1111111111 1101110101 1111010011 0101010111 1111010111 1110011101 1110111111 0111011101 1111010111 0111011101 1101111111 1111011101 1101111111 1001111111 0101111111 11011101101 1111011111 10111111001 1011110111 1111010101 11010101010 1111011111 01001011101 1101111101 1101110101 1101010001 1111111101 1111010101 11011101110 1011111111 1101010111 1111011111 01010111110 11100111001 1110010001 1011011101 1011111111 0111111101 1111011111 1101110111 0101010100 11001010101 1100110101 10010100001 0111111111 0111111110 1101110111 11111010111 01010010101 0111010111 1111010101 1111011101 1111011101 1111111111 1111111001 0111111111 1111011111 0111111101 1111110111 11110111111 111101111111 10111 11111 11110011101 0101110111 1101101101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010111 11011111010 11111101111 1101010101 11110110110 01010111011 1111110110 1111010101 0101010101 1111011101 1111110101 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111011101 111101 10110 1111110101 1111111111 1101110101 1111110101 0111111111 1111010101 1101011101 11110011101 0101010111 0111011100 10110111111 1101111111 0100110110 0101011101 0111111111 01110111010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5377
- Average number of words per stanza: 1068
- Amount of lines: 250
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, me, i, never, one, both, and, months, of, my, some, eyes, in, they, them, yet, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, never, only, and, i, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', himself are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases alone, say, then, eyes, peace, rest connect the lines.
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