This is an analysis of the poem The Priest's Heart that begins with:
It was Sir John, the fair young Priest,
He strode up off the strand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb caXX decX dddd aXbX cfdX Xege gbaX ahfh X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111101 11010101101 110101 11100111 1100111 0111001011 100111 111110101 111111 11011011011 111101 1110010110 10101010 1110011110 110110 1111101011 1110101 111111111 10111110 1101001111 011101 1100101110 110011 111111111 110110 11111111011 0010101 10111111 110111 11111001001 1101110 11100111 111001 1110111001 1110111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; ill, thou, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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