This is an analysis of the poem The Convent Threshold that begins with:

There's blood between us, love, my love,
There's father's blood, there's brother's blood,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadcbefeddgdgd hbbbhfiXhibbijfjfjkkj kllmkmfkmmmmm nkXknnffff fddfjkkj cnanfafonanfafoc KccoocfXkkkXkmXpnpnkbkbee KkddbhhbbXbXbllnXjenbbjppmemmadcfmdaakka
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,21,13,10,8,16,25,40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010111 01010101 11011101 01011101 01110111 01111101 01110111 11010101 110101110 01010101 111101110 10110101 11110111 11011101 01010101 01010101 01010101 11110111 110101001 01001100 11011101 11011101 10100001 0100101001 01011101 11010111 11110101 11110011 11111101 101101001 11010101 110100011 11110111 11010101 11111111 01011111 11111111 10010101 00011111 11010101 11011111 01011111 01100101 110111001 01010101 10111011 11010101 01011101 11011110 11110111 11011101 11011101 11111111 10110111 1100101001 11111010 11011111 11111111 01111101 11111111 10111101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11110101 111101001 01110101 11110011 110011111 11110111 11110101 110001001 111001010 11011111 010110010 01011101 01111111 11010101 01111101 11011101 11111111 010010001 1010111001 11010101 101010111 101110101 11011101 1101010110 11111111 10110101 01000101 11010100 1101101111 01011101 10010111 11110101 010101001 01110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 10011101 11011111 11011101 11110101 11111111 01110111 11111101 11110111 1101101011 11111101 01110101 1010011111 101010011 11010100 01010111 0101011100 11111111 11010101 11111101 11101101 11111101 11110110 11010101 11111111 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11111111 11011101 1100011011 01111111 10011101 11110101 01010101 11010111 11011101 11110101 11110111 11111101 11111101 11111111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; blood, there's, of, that, to, they, you, for, o, weary, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, of, beyond, the, woe's, how, o, heaven, a, when are repeated.

    The author used the same words you, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light is repeated).

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