This is an analysis of the poem The Mendicants that begins with:
Charity, Charity - parson and priest
Ever in church and in chapel have taught ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcdedbfbf ghghiihhi fhfhbfbf heheeeXje klkleeee heheaaaaa kfkfeheh mnmnooaao bibieXec ghghggjjg Xaoaofkfkcecebbaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,8,9,8,9,8,9,8,9,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011 1001101011 11010010001 1101001001 1101011111 1011001001 110100 1001011001 1001001001 1011001111 1001001001 0100101001 11010011001 001001011001 1001001011 1011001001 1001001001 100100101 1111101011 1001001111 111101 111101 1001001001 101100111 1011011011 1001001001 1001101001 1001011001 1100101001 11001001001 0100100111 1001001001 111101001 1111001111 1001101001 1111001111 1011001111 101000 100100 1001001111 110110101 1001001001 1001001011 1001001001 1111001101 1100011101 1001001101 1011001101 1001001001 1001101101 1010101111 1001001001 1101001011 1001001011 100100 110100 1001000110 100110111 1001011001 10010010011 1011101001 1111001011 1001001001 1001011001 11101101011 1001001101 1111101011 1001011001 10010101001 1110001111 1001001111 100110 100100 1001000011 110111101 1001001001 1111001001 1101001001 1001001111 1101001001 1101101001 1001001001 1001001001 1101001101 1001001001 10010110001 1001001001 1001001001 100100 100100 1001000001 1101001011 1011011011 1101101011 1101011001 1111011001 1001011011 1101001001 1001001011 1001001011 0011000011 01101101001 01001101001 1101011101 01001001111 110100 110100 1111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; charity, in, of, his, it, you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word charity 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 ones, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase paid connects the lines.
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