This is an analysis of the poem The Passover In The Holy Family (For A Drawing) that begins with:

Here meet together the prefiguring day
And day prefigured. “Eating, thou shalt stand,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabXbcXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11010010001 11100010111 1111111011 0111110011 1101010101 1110111101 1101110100 1011010101 010011100101 11101011110 11111000101 1100011101 1101110010 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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  • idea of the verse;
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