This is an analysis of the poem In The Cathedral that begins with:
THE altar-lights burn low, the incense-fume
Sickens: O listen, how the priestly prayer ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabXXcdcdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110011 1011010101 1101010101 1111011110 0111010101 1111000101 11111101100 1001111110 01010011101 11000100111 1111111101 1011010100 0110011101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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