This is an analysis of the poem It Is The Sinners' Dust-Tongued Bell that begins with:
It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell claps me to churches
When, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulpher priest,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc bXXbXX deedXa XXeXXe fgXfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011111010 1001110110101 01110010 11011010001010 1010001110101 101001010 1001001110101 1101101110110 101110100 1011010011111 111100011111 101101100 1011101010011 111100010011 01010011 1011110100101 001001110010101 01011101 01000011001110 1001011111110 1011010 0111010101010 101100111001110 1100110 111101110100110 11010011011001 00101001 111100111001010 11101110101111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.
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