This is an analysis of the poem The Passion Of Our Lady that begins with:

For the past three days she had been wandering, and following.
She followed the people....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbdebfgdfhbiicijjbadjgkbbk geXldkffeelfkeddfkeimikkcifbncnicieelbdmdjXdgcbeecciihdfeoilnXdboeeXXpfXpk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,74,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101001100 110010 110001 11001000100 1010101100 11010100 1010 10101010100 100100101010 01 1011110010 10111110010 110101 00101010010010 1001001000101010 001000100 001 00110011 11110110100 11111100 01011 110110111110 10110110101000 111110100 1111111 001000101001001 11111001101 0111 01010 1110010010001001 1001001 001001101 101101 11101111010100 1010010100001 1101110 1101111101 011011 01011 111111110110 1011110100111011 11110101 11011 10100100 1010110 11110 0111001101 110111 101010 110010101001 1110101110110010010010 01110100001 11001000001 110110011 1100101 00101010 1101111101101 11101111010010101 110010110 110111010000100101 0100001101000010 01000101010001 010001010100010 11101100 1001 1111110101111 11011 11100110 101 11010 10100 1010010101011 1010010 111111 11010101 100101001 0110100100 01110011011010 111101001 01110001001 011110 01101110 11111 11010 111111 11101 111111001 01011111 10101011 101010101 001 10111100010 01001010 11101 111111111101101111100 1110100 111 10011 111101011 111110101 111 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; she, like, had, in, her, change, they, and, government, of, fourteen, stations, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, like, in, a, everybody, they, the, were are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines funeral, calvary, veil, that, her, condemned, it, cross, stations, t are repeated).

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