This is an analysis of the poem Altarwise By Owl-Light that begins with:
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house
The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbabcbcdede fgbgfhXbabibib bjbjbahkhkeded feleflbXXdbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100111 010011000010 10000101010 10010101010 0101000111 1101100101 1101110001 11010010101 0101000111 1001010111 1111000101 11011001010 1101110011 11110100110 101100101100 0111010101 01010100010 1111000101 10011001010 11010110010 01010110100 1101010011 11110100010 1111110001 10111101010 1101010110 10010101010 11110001010 111011101 1111010101 1101000101 1001111101 1101010101 110010001001 10011111010 1001010001 11110001010 1111000101 01110001110 0101010101 111100101010 10100011011 1001001010 01010001110 101101001010 11011001010 11011101010 10110001010 10001110110 10010010101 10110101010 1101010101 1010001010 1111001101 11110001010 11011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, shape are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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