This is an analysis of the poem How Herman Won The Cross that begins with:

Once in a blue eternity they gave us
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdbecfgcg XbgXXbhieefe jkhclkXcdjij bmdcemXchnin dobhpochebcb mgmcjgecXiji aqlXfqXcXbcb fdjcpdjXmaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100111 101 010111010 101010 11110101011 1001 1111110001 00010 010101010100 11 110111010 10101 111101010101 11 1101010101 1100 1100010111 1101 011010101010 0010 110101011100 01 0101101011 11101 00111111 110101 01010101110 1010 010111110 10101 110101000100 010 110111011 10111 1101110011 0101 11100100111 11111 11011111 1101010 1011011111 1011 1101010101 10010 00100010101110 1 00100010111 1101 1111010111 0101 11000101111 1010 11011100010 101 1100011111 11010 11110001110 001 11110110010 111 111101111 10011 11110111110 1010 1110111111 1101 11111101111 1110 1101001111 1101 110111111 10101 11011111 010101 110111010 1010010 1101100001 1001 011111011 101110 01010110110 111 0111110001010 1 111111111 10101 1111110101 100010 1101110111 1011 1101101001 101010 110111111 11111 1100010111010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • 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; in, i, 'n', me are repeated.

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