This is an analysis of the poem Pilate's Wife's Dream that begins with:
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start
Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdee fa fagg XhihXg ajajii kakadd hX hgld hdhmjj ndndee ioiopp ck ckdd qdqmhh emelgg bebejj ak akaa gqgqbb igighh eieiee mg dXaa ececdm hgXgcc adadii Xheh rr fdfdaa gdgdhhXrrjjgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,2,4,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,4,2,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110011 110011001101 0110111101 01101111101 1001111101 11110010011 0111110101 1101011101 1001110101 1101010101 1111011111 1011010101 1111010111 0111010001 1111111101 1100100011 11110010101 10110101001 1111111100 1111011101 1111010101 11001110111 1101110011 1011110101 1101110101 01010111101 1010010011 1101010101 1111011101 0110010111 1101011101 0101111101 0101011101 01100010101 0011010111 0111010111 1101010101 0111001110 1101110111 1001010001 11000110101 1111010111 1111011101 1011001001 01110100111 0110110100 11001110111 11011100101 11111100011 0111111101 1111010111 1101110101 10010010101 1111010001 1011011101 100111010110 01110010101 01010111110 0111011101 1101110101 1111111101 1111110111 1111111111 0111111111 1111101111 1111101101 1101001001 1111010001 1101010101 1111011100 1111110001 1101110101 1111110101 1001011100 1111010101 10011111101 01100000101 100110100011 111010101 0101110101 11010101001 01001010101 1101011111 1001001101 11010010111 10010100111 01101101101 1011010001 11110100101 1101010101 01000100101 1001011101 1101010101 0111010101 0111010101 11101001101 1011010111 11100010001 10111011011 11110011101 1011001111 1100111110 1101011101 010111000001 01010011101 1101010101 11110110111 11110001011 1101011100 1101011101 1111111111 11110101110 11110100101 1100101111 1101110101 0001011101 11001010101 01010101001 1111111111 1111010100 1001010101 010000000011 0111000101 1111000101 0101001111 01110100101 0101011101 010100100101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010001 01001010101 11010011100 1101011001 0011001111 01101110101 1100011001 0101000101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0111111101 1111111011 11001111111 11111100101 1101111011 11010110111 0101110101 1001010101 1111011101 0110100101 01110101101 1101111101 1101001101 1101010101 01000110101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 158
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my, he, in, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words forced, a, i, he, there, our, part, this are repeated.
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