This is an analysis of the poem Tell The Blessed Tidings that begins with:
Tell the blessèd tidings, children of the King,
With your glad hosannas make the morning ring:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC cccccC ddaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010001 01110010101 10001010111 11011011101 10101010101 001011010011 1011011111 10001010101 10101010001 00101010101 10001010111 001011010011 1011010111 10101010111 10101010101 10111001001 10110010111 101011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tell is repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word end at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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