This is an analysis of the poem St Michael's Chapel that begins with:
When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain
Roars round about me as I walk the street, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011001101 1101111101 01001010101 0101010011 0101011101 10001011101 0101011101 1111110101 0101010101 1101011111 0111010111 0101111100 11001010101 1101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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