This is an analysis of the poem Gerrans Churchtown that begins with:
The spire at Gerrans Churchtown, it stands up bold and high,
It stands above the harbour and sees the ships go by;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddXX ccXe ffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010011111 0101010110111 01011100010101 0111011010101 0101010010111 01101110011101 0111111111101 0101010111111 0101010111101 11110101100111 0101010010101 101110111011101 1011111110101 1101010110111 0101110110100 0101010110111 0101010111111 00101110111101 00101111110101 10101110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, their, than are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the, and 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.
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