This is an analysis of the poem Saint Monica that begins with:
AMONG deep woods is the dismantled scite
Of an old Abbey, where the chaunted rite, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccdde ffbbaXddeggXh bbddXbbiihhdde aaffjjddeffhh hhddeaaaaXkdde kkhhbXXdeffaa ddddeffhhlldde jjjjmmdde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,14,13,14,13,14,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000101 0111010101 1111000101 1101110101 0011010101 11010101001 1101010111 0101100111 1110001100 0101011101 0101010101 1101000101 101010010101 0111011111 1101010101 1111010101 01001011101 0101001100 1101010100 1101011101 10110101100 1101010101 11110010001 1001010101 1101010001 0101010101 1001001100 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010101 10101000101 1001110111 01011000101 1101000101 0101001100 0101010111 1101110101 0111010101 1101010101 0100010101 10010111001 1101010101 1101011101 10011001100 101010101 1001110101 1101011101 1011010101 01010110001 101010001 1001110101 1011011001 11010010100 1111011101 11010101001 1111011101 11110010111 1011010101 110110001 1001010101 10011101001 0011001100 0100011001 110100011101 1111010101 0101110101 1011000101 1101010010 10101011101 0100010001 1001001100 1101111101 01110100111 0101000101 0101010101 0101110001 0110110101 1011000101 1111010101 10011010100 1111001001 010010011111 11010101001 0011000101 01010001010 01011101010 01010111001 1011010101 1001001100 1101010101 11010011101 1111110001 1101100011 1101010101 1001010101 11001010001 11010110001 10111010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word monica at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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