This is an analysis of the poem At The Gate that begins with:
THE monastery towers, as pure and fair
As virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcX dadaaeX eceffgg hhhhhcc adaidjX kekeeee dhdhhXX jhjhhee eceXXlX gmgmXaa dgdggiX aeaeeeX neneeee hdhdddX eiedddX dmdmmdd obobbee bebeeeX XaXaadX lalaaaa cpcppbb knknnee bibidaa chchhcc ecefccX ececcaa heXeXddXahahhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101111 11011111010 0101010101 01111111010 11110111110 1101011111 1011101111101 10101011111 1101010011 1011000101 1101110001 1011111101 0011010101 110101010101 1101000111 0111011011 1001010101 1101010100 0101000100 1011010111 011111001101 1101100101 01110101011 1101011100 11010100001 1101111101 0101111101 111101111101 1111101101 1111010101 1011001101 1101010101 10111101011 1101011101 010101110111 11011111001 1100011100 0100010101 11010111011 10110100101 1111011101 1101111110101 1111111101 1111011101 11110010111 0101111101 1111011011 010111010010 111000111001010 1100010101 1001010101 0101011101 1111011111 1101110101 11010010101 1101001010101 1111010101 1101010111 1011010101 1101010110 1111010111 1111111101 1101011001010 1111001111 0101010101 1111001101 1100110010 1011011101 1111011101 110101101111 1111000101 0101010101 1101010101 0111110111 11010111101 0111011001 010111011101 0101000111 0101011111 0101010101 1101110101 1001111101 1101011101 110111111101 101111011001 01010010111 11010100011 0110110101 1101010111 1101011111 111101111101 1101011111 10110001010 0001010101 0101000110010 11010111101 1111110111 010011010011 1111010111 1101110111 11010111001 1001110101 1101011101 1011011101 110111110101 1101000101 1101110110 1011000101 0111000101 1100001111 1111011011 111101010101 1011011111 01011011010 1011110101 1001001001010 11010111010 0100110111 1101011010101 1111010001 1101110111 1101011101 11001011101 1101110101 1101111101 111111010100 0101010010 1101000111 10010000101 01010000101 0101011101 10111110111 11110111011000 1101011111 0111011101 1111110101 11110101101 0101011101 1001111111 100111010001 1111111111 1111011101 0101111111 1101111101 11111111001 1111111110 110111011111 1101010111 11011110101 10110101111 0101100101 1011011111 01111101001 111101010101 1111011111 1101110101 110101100010 11110101001 1101100111 0100100111 0101011101001 1101111111 0101010101 1001110111 11001111101 1111011100 11110110110 1111001111101 1001110011 1101111111 0110111011 0111011100 0111101111 1111111101 110111101101 1101110101 1111101011 10101010101 1111110101 0101101101 11011101001 111111010101 1011011101 1101010111 01011011000 1111010101 01010010100 1011101111 1100101010111 11010010111 1011010101 1111010101 11110010101 1011010101 0111111101 1101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 196
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; as, and, of, her, to, for, when, our, i, your, in, prayer, that, thee, my, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, a, no, by, of, the are repeated.
The author used the same words and, 'for 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase days connects the lines.
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- summary of At The Gate;
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