This is an analysis of the poem Then Was My Neophyte that begins with:

Then was my neophyte,
Child in white blood bent on its knees...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcaabcbca Xbdbdccbdddb ecfcfgehchcg eaiaiXeiaaXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 10111101 100101 10010101 01000101 101111 110101 101001010 110101 110100010 01000101 101101 101100 010010101 100111 01001101 101010111 110011 101101 01111001 100101 10111101 111111011 110101 111100 10011101 100101 10011101 11101011 101101 011100 01000111 110101 11111101 11011101 100101 111100 01110101 111101 11110101 01010101 0100110 111100 11110111 101101 111111001 11111110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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