This is an analysis of the poem Poem 13 that begins with:

Behold whiles she before the altar stands
Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXbXcXXdbcXddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 1001011001 1100001101 10110110010 1011010101 110101 1110101000 0101010110 0111010101 11000111011 011101 1011110101 110010100 1101110101 111001011 1111010111 010111 1111010001 110111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; her, to are repeated.

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