This is an analysis of the poem Apostasy that begins with:
THIS last denial of my faith,
Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebefafa dbdXgege ghgXhihi ccccgbgb eXjdcgcg cecekiki dedekeXj lclceded hehebXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 110111 11011101 111101 11010101 110101 11000101 110101 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 101101001 110101 11111101 111101 11011111 1101111 111111111 111101 11111111 111111 111010101 111101 01111111 111001 01100101 1001010 10111111 1101001 01101101 111101 10111111 1101011 11001101 111101 10110101 110111 11111101 0100011 11011111 0111010 10111100 011111 11110101 100101 11111101 111101 11011100 111111 11111101 110101 111101001 110101 11111101 011001 100101001 101101 11111101 0100101 11010101 111100 11111101 111100 11110111 010101 110100111 111011 011100101 110111 11101101 010111 11110101 111101 11010111 111101 1111110111 11101111 11110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; can, as, my, ', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, then, ' are repeated.
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