This is an analysis of the poem All Saints that begins with:
All so grave and shining see they come
From the blissful ranks of the forgiven,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fgfg eheh dbdb ijij kjkj ibiX elel ibib mbmb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 0010100010 11101010101 101110 110110101 101010111 001110011 101110101 1011101011 0011100 0110101011 01101 1100101010 1010101 0011100010 0011101 1101101010 001010101 001010100110 11101 1010101111 110010101 101010001011 0010101 0010111011 1000110001 1010101011 0011111 0011111001010 01010101 0010101010 10101 101110101 101001111 111010001 111010110 1111111010 101010101 1110101010 101010111 1110101111 1110000101 1010101011 1110101 1111101010 0010101 111111111110 100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in, of, you, us, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of All Saints;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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