This is an analysis of the poem Christ In Flanders that begins with:
Oh, you that took our sin and pain
Upon your shoulders long ago,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd edeXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 01110101 11110101 01010111 11010101 11011101 110000101 11110101 010101011 01111101 01000101 11010100 01010101 01001111 01100101 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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